Teaching an AI Agent to Make Beautiful Charts
Most AI-generated charts look generic because nothing stops them from being generic. This series takes a different approach: an AI agent builds each visualization from scratch, then revises it until it passes the Tufte Test, a quality standard built on Edward Tufte's principles for clear, effective charts. The posts below track that progress, one chart at a time.
Beautiful Charts with AI
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Mexico ships 83% of every fresh avocado the U.S. imports
No horse has broken Secretariat's 1973 Kentucky Derby record
U.S. women 40+ now have more babies per capita than teens
U.S. drug overdose deaths are down 35% from the 2022 peak
U.S. birth rate fell to a record low in 2025
Artemis II ended humanity's 54-year confinement to low Earth orbit
Sabastian Sawe ran the first sub-2-hour marathon: 118 years of marathon records
Every Atlantic hurricane track, 1980 to 2025
U.S. oil: from peak importer to net exporter in one decade
A thousand springs in Kyoto, in one chart
130 years of Boston Marathon winning times
Libraries were transforming. Then COVID hit.
The Claude Code leak in four charts: half a million lines, three accidents, forty tools
Every generation rediscovers art: 270 years of cultural interests in one chart
The rise and fall of bowling in the United States
The rise and fall of nuclear weapons testing
Housing and getting around eat half of the average American household's spending
96% of U.S. counties grew more diverse from 2010 to 2020
The engineering and tech gender gap has barely budged in 50 years
Americans eat 3x more cheese and half as much milk as they did in 1970
Where racial diversity lives in America, county by county
Americans used to outlive their peers. Now they die 4 years sooner.
Working your way through college now takes 5x more hours than in 1970
Coal collapsed and natural gas took over the U.S. power grid
