# Chart Selection

> Choosing the right chart type for your data, chart anatomy, and common chart mistakes.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-dragoon0x-everything-design-taste-chart-selection`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Dragoon0x](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/dragoon0x)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Dragoon0x](https://github.com/Dragoon0x)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste/tree/main/skills/chart-selection

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-dragoon0x-everything-design-taste-chart-selection
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Chart Selection

## Choosing the Right Chart

| Data Relationship | Best Chart |
|-------------------|------------|
| Change over time | Line chart, area chart |
| Comparison | Bar chart (horizontal for many categories) |
| Part of whole | Pie/donut (max 5 slices), stacked bar |
| Distribution | Histogram, box plot |
| Correlation | Scatter plot |
| Geographic | Map (choropleth, point map) |
| Flow/process | Sankey diagram, funnel |
| Hierarchy | Treemap, sunburst |

## Chart Anatomy
- **Title:** States the insight, not the data ('Revenue grew 40% in Q3' not 'Revenue Q1-Q4')
- **Axes:** Labeled with units, starting at zero for bars (not for lines)
- **Legend:** Only when multiple series, positioned near the data
- **Gridlines:** Minimal, light gray, horizontal only
- **Annotations:** Call out key points directly on the chart

## Common Mistakes
1. Pie charts with more than 5 slices (unreadable)
2. 3D charts (distort perception)
3. Dual Y-axes (confusing, usually misleading)
4. Truncated Y-axis on bar charts (exaggerates differences)
5. Too many colors (use one hue with variations for most charts)
6. Missing context (what's the benchmark? trend? target?)

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Dragoon0x](https://github.com/Dragoon0x)
- **Source:** [Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste](https://github.com/Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-dragoon0x-everything-design-taste-chart-selection
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/dragoon0x
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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