data-viz-storytelling-healy

data-viz-storytelling-healy is a skill for Claude Code from charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill. It costs 105 tokens per session (2,591 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to choosing charts and explaining data clearly, based on principles for honest and useful visual communication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select chart types, write evidence-based insight summaries, check figures for misleading presentation, and decide between an infographic and a statistical chart.
Why use it?
It helps avoid misleading charts, such as exaggerated bar differences, confusing dual axes, or conclusions based on a selectively chosen time period.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to select chart types, write evidence-based insight summaries, check figures for misleading presentation, and decide between an infographic and a statistical chart.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill/data-viz-storytelling-healy
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill --skill data-viz-storytelling-healy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,591 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00105 $0.02591
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01295
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00518
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00259

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7eb2ced29ccd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-viz-storytelling-healy scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/data-viz-storytelling-healy/SKILL.md · 227 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 227 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Data Visualization & Storytelling (Healy + AntV)

"The tools you use can help you live up to the right standards. But they cannot make you do the right thing." — Kieran Healy, Data Visualization, Ch. 1

When to Use This Skill

  • Deciding which chart type fits the analytical question
  • Writing a report or slide deck where numbers need a narrative
  • Reviewing a figure for honesty / misleading patterns
  • Drafting an insight summary with claim → evidence → caveat structure
  • Choosing between infographic (visual design) and statistical figure (accuracy)

For actual plotting code → use matplotlib, seaborn, or scientific-visualization.


Section 1 — Honesty & Judgment (Healy Ch. 1)

Before choosing colors or chart types, verify the figure does not mislead.

1.1 Pre-plot Honesty Checklist

Check Why it matters
Baseline / zero start Bar charts starting above zero exaggerate differences. Line charts may omit zero legitimately if the focus is trend, not level.
Dual axes Two Y-axes on one plot invite false correlation. Prefer faceted panels or indexed series.
Cherry-picked window Short time windows can hide long-term patterns. Always show context.
Aggregation level Averages can hide distribution shape. Consider showing raw data, box plots, or density.
Proportional vs absolute Normalize when comparing groups of different size; keep raw counts available.
Color encoding Do not use rainbow/palette that implies order for categorical data. Use colorblind-safe palettes.
Uncertainty Show CI, prediction bands, or error bars when presenting estimates.
Axis labels & units Every axis must state what it measures and in what unit.

Rule of thumb: If removing context (time range, N, CI) changes the takeaway, the figure is misleading as-is.

1.2 Perception Principles (Healy Ch. 1 + Cleveland)

Humans perceive some encodings more accurately than others:

  1. Position on common scale — most accurate (scatter, line)
  2. Position on different scale — good (grouped bar, faceted)
  3. Length / direction — moderate
  4. Angle / area — poor (avoid pie charts for comparison)
  5. Color intensity / shape — worst for magnitude; OK for categories

Read the full file on GitHub · 227 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 227 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 7eb2ced29ccd

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data-viz-storytelling-healy is a skill published in the GitHub repository charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill (25 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 2,591 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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