matplotlib-optimization-visualization

matplotlib-optimization-visualization is a skill for Claude Code from hajibabaie/combinatorial-optimization-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (9,890 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to making charts for optimization experiments with Matplotlib, a Python plotting library. It covers common research figures such as progress-over-time curves, schedules, routes, trade-off frontiers, and solver comparisons.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plot progress across repeated runs, Gantt charts for schedules, routes on maps, Pareto fronts showing competing objectives, and performance profiles comparing algorithms. It supports print-ready vector files and fixed publication sizes.
Why use it?
It helps turn experiment data into figures that remain readable in papers and presentations. It also addresses common problems such as inconsistent data, misleading comparisons, and unsuitable output formats.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the combinatorial-optimization plugin — 76 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plot progress across repeated runs, Gantt charts for schedules, routes on maps, Pareto fronts showing competing objectives, and performance profiles comparing algorithms. It supports print-ready vector files and fixed publication sizes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hajibabaie/combinatorial-optimization-skills/matplotlib-optimization-visualization
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add hajibabaie/combinatorial-optimization-skills --skill matplotlib-optimization-visualization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hajibabaie/combinatorial-optimization-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install combinatorial-optimization, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 76 skills.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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matplotlib-optimization-visualization 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 1mo ago.

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skills/matplotlib-optimization-visualization/SKILL.md · 626 lines

How it starts

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Matplotlib Visualization for Optimization

You are an expert in scientific visualization for operations research. This skill covers the standard figure types of computational optimization papers — convergence curves, Gantt charts, route plots, Pareto fronts, and performance profiles — plus the publication-quality mechanics (vector output, font matching, column-width sizing) that journals and conferences require. Use the pattern catalog below: each pattern gives the motivation, a complete implementation, and the pitfall that most often ruins the figure.

Initial Assessment

Before producing any figure, establish:

  • Venue and column geometry. Single-column (~3.3–3.5 in) or double-column (~7 in) figure? IEEE, INFORMS, Springer, and Elsevier column widths differ; the figure must be designed at its final printed width.
  • Target format. PDF or EPS vector for the paper; PNG only for previews, slides, or raster-heavy panels. Some journals still require EPS or TIFF — confirm before styling.
  • Data shape. Is the experiment data already in tidy form (one row per run, columns for instance, algorithm, seed, time, objective)? If not, fix the table first — plotting code should never reshape ad hoc.
  • What the figure must argue. Anytime behavior (convergence plot), final quality distribution (box/strip plot), robustness across instances (performance profile), structural correctness (route/Gantt plot), or trade-offs (Pareto plot). One claim per figure.
  • Minimization or maximization. Determines np.minimum.accumulate vs np.maximum.accumulate, axis direction, and which corner of a Pareto plot is "good."
  • Number of seeds and instances. Fewer than ~5 seeds: plot individual runs, not a band. Many instances: aggregate with performance profiles, not 50 separate convergence plots.
  • Time axis semantics. Wall-clock seconds, CPU seconds, or evaluation count? Mixed hardware makes wall-clock comparisons unfair; evaluation counts hide per-iteration cost differences. State the choice on the axis label.
  • Scale needs. Objectives spanning orders of magnitude, or late-stage differences of <1%, need log axes or gap-to-best transforms decided up front.
  • Color constraints. Will reviewers print in grayscale? Is colorblind safety required (it should be)? Fix a palette before the first figure so the whole paper is consistent.
  • Reproducibility requirement. Every paper figure should be regenerated by one script from one results file. Plan scripts/make_figures.py + results/*.csv + figures/ from the start.

Read the full file on GitHub · 626 lines

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matplotlib-optimization-visualization is a skill published in the GitHub repository hajibabaie/combinatorial-optimization-skills (14 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 9,890 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.

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