bio-data-visualization-distribution-plots

bio-data-visualization-distribution-plots is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S. It costs 95 tokens per session (3,830 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of bio-data-visualization-distribution-plots, MIT.

A guide to showing how continuous values are distributed within groups using boxplots, violin plots, beeswarms, jittered points, and raincloud plots.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare measurements such as gene expression across clusters or other groups and choose a chart that exposes individual observations and distribution shape.
Why use it?
It helps reveal the spread and shape of the data instead of reducing each group to a single average, while taking group size into account.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to compare measurements such as gene expression across clusters or other groups and choose a chart that exposes individual observations and distribution shape.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pku-yuangroup/openai4s/bio-data-visualization-distribution-plots
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S --skill bio-data-visualization-distribution-plots
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,830 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 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00095 $0.03830
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01915
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00766
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00383

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7666bde3c7a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-data-visualization-distribution-plots 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to bio-data-visualization-distribution-plots — 12 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/bioskills/bio-data-visualization-distribution-plots/SKILL.md · 274 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 274 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: ggplot2 3.5+, ggbeeswarm 0.7+, ggdist 3.3+, gghalves 0.1.4+, seaborn 0.13+, matplotlib 3.8+, ptitprince 0.3+ (Python raincloud).

Before using code patterns, verify installed versions match. If versions differ:

  • Python: pip show <package> then help(module.function) to check signatures
  • R: packageVersion('<pkg>') then ?function_name to verify parameters

If code throws ImportError, AttributeError, or TypeError, introspect the installed package and adapt the example to match the actual API rather than retrying.

Distribution Plots

"Plot the distribution per group" -> Render boxplot, violin, beeswarm, or raincloud calibrated to N per group, the underlying distribution shape, and the audience's ability to read each encoding. The default geom_bar(stat='summary') is the canonical misleading choice — Weissgerber 2015 PLOS Biol documented that 703 top physiology papers use bar-of-mean despite multiple distinct distributions producing identical bars.

  • R: ggplot2::geom_boxplot, ggplot2::geom_violin, ggbeeswarm::geom_quasirandom, ggdist::stat_halfeye, gghalves::geom_half_violin
  • Python: seaborn.boxplot/violinplot/swarmplot/stripplot, ptitprince.RainCloud

The Single Most Important Modern Insight -- Bars of Means Lie

Weissgerber, Milic, Winham & Garovic 2015 PLOS Biol 13:e1002128 surveyed 703 papers in top physiology journals and found that bar-and-line graphs of means dominate, despite many distinct distributions producing identical bar plots. Bimodal data, skewed data, and data with outliers all collapse to the same bar height and error bar. The bar plot is a hypothesis test result rendered as visualization; the visualization should show the data.

The modern alternative is to show every point for n < 30, layer summary on top, and reserve summary-only plots for large N where points would overplot.

Decision Tree by N per Group

N per group Recommended Avoid
3-10 Dot plot or jittered raw points + median bar Bar of mean
10-30 Beeswarm OR quasirandom + box overlay Bare boxplot (hides bimodality)
30-200 Raincloud (Allen 2019) OR box + jitter Bare violin (default KDE bandwidth oversmooths)
200-1000 Letter-value plot (Hofmann 2017) OR violin with explicit bandwidth Box alone (collapses tails)
>1000 Density (KDE) or histogram + summary stats Individual points (overplot)

Read the full file on GitHub · 274 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 274 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 7666bde3c7a0

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bio-data-visualization-distribution-plots is a skill published in the GitHub repository PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S (407 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 3,830 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to bio-data-visualization-distribution-plots, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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