data-viz-standards

data-viz-standards is a skill for Claude Code from StamKavid/last-ds-mile. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,217 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for choosing charts and visualisation libraries, including Matplotlib, Plotly, and Altair. It also checks whether axes, scales, and aggregations could give a misleading impression.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when exploring data, preparing stakeholder-facing tables or charts, choosing a plotting library, or reviewing a potentially misleading figure.
Why use it?
It helps match a visual to its audience and purpose, while reducing the risk that a chart hides or exaggerates a result.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the last-ds-mile plugin — 29 skills, 17 commands, 3 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when exploring data, preparing stakeholder-facing tables or charts, choosing a plotting library, or reviewing a potentially misleading figure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stamkavid/last-ds-mile/data-viz-standards
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 StamKavid/last-ds-mile --skill data-viz-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/StamKavid/last-ds-mile

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install last-ds-mile, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 17 commands, 3 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,217 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 $0.00069 $0.01217
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00609
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00122

Measured 12d ago against content hash eb6c7c0c5b2b, 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-standards 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 12d 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.

skills/data-viz-standards/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

data-viz-standards

Overview

The right visualization tool depends on who's looking and why — exploratory hypothesis testing and a stakeholder-facing table need different tools. Also covers the honesty checks that keep a chart from misleading its audience, intentionally or not.

When to Use

  • Building plots during /ds-explore to test a hypothesis.
  • Preparing tables or charts for /ds-evaluate's slice performance or /ds-report's stakeholder narrative.
  • A chart's axis, aggregation, or scale choice seems like it could mislead, even unintentionally.
  • NOT for: deciding which slices/subgroups to analyze in the first place (see error-analysis) — this skill is about how to present a finding, not which findings to look for.

Core Process

  1. Identify the audience first: exploratory (you, testing a hypothesis) or stakeholder-facing (someone deciding based on this). The right tool differs.
  2. For exploratory work, pick the chart type from the decision table below and state the hypothesis it's testing (per /ds-explore's own discipline) before building it.
  3. For stakeholder-facing work, prefer a table (great_tables) over a chart when the audience needs to read specific numbers, and a chart only when a pattern or trend is the point.
  4. Before finalizing any chart or table, run the honesty checklist (below) — a technically-correct chart can still mislead through axis or aggregation choices.

Techniques/Patterns

Library choice by purpose

Purpose Recommended library Why
Fast, hypothesis-driven EDA plots (interactive, notebook-embedded) Altair Declarative grammar-of-graphics — state the encoding (x, y, color, facet) directly, mirroring "state the hypothesis, then the chart"
Interactive drill-down / a dashboard Plotly Best interactivity and browser integration
Very large or streaming data Bokeh More efficient than Altair/Plotly at genuine scale
Stakeholder-facing tables (slice performance, model card figures, report numbers) great_tables Purpose-built for publication-quality tables — currency/percent formatting, source notes, HTML/image export — a better fit than a chart when exact numbers matter
Committed static evidence — a stage-doc figure saved to .last-ds-mile/figures/*.png, not viewed interactively matplotlib Altair/Plotly's native output is an interactive spec, the wrong shape for a committed PNG; savefig is the direct path. Also what SHAP's own plotting functions render with, so figures share one library.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 12d ago First seen · 88 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A eb6c7c0c5b2b

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data-viz-standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository StamKavid/last-ds-mile (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,217 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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