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AI · June 28, 2026

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Better Graphs – Teach agents to stop making plain Matplotlib slop

https://github.com/temataro/better-graphs I want to teach good Matplotlib taste to agents and humans. This repo contains: 1. Agent instructions + design motifs (Claude Code skills + a CLAUDE.md). 2. An online "blog" tutorial of the same skills, for people. 3. minerva.mplstyle, my opinionated sane matplotlib defaults. Inspired by Tufte's book: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (a gift from my boss!), plus data-to-viz.com and the python-graph-gallery. Aiming for halfway to the gorgeous plots in the paid matplotlib-journey.com, but free and open to share with…

Better Graphs – Teach agents to stop making plain Matplotlib slop launched on June 28, 2026 with 6 votes, #2,066 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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https://github.com/temataro/better-graphs I want to teach good Matplotlib taste to agents and humans. This repo contains: 1. Agent instructions + design motifs (Claude Code skills + a CLAUDE.md). 2. An online "blog" tutorial of the same skills, for people. 3. minerva.mplstyle, my opinionated sane…

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