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The Tufte Test: Teaching an AI Agent to Make Better Data Visualizations (reddit.com)
2 points by rhiever 34 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


AI agents can make data visualizations now. Ask Manus, Claude, or ChatGPT to chart a dataset and you'll get something back in seconds. The output is almost always... fine. Functional. Generic. The kind of chart that communicates data but doesn't communicate insight. In this post, I experimented with how to make AI agents visualize data better.




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