Setup & Installation
openclaw skills install @ianalloway/data-viz
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
npx clawhub install data-viz
What This Skill Does
Generates Unicode charts and plots in the terminal from CSV, JSON, or piped data. Supports bar, line, scatter, histogram, and sparkline chart types. Works with YouPlot, termgraph, and gnuplot.
Lets you explore and present data without leaving the terminal or opening a spreadsheet application.
When to use it
- Plotting monthly sales figures from a CSV file
- Monitoring live CPU usage as a line chart
- Charting API response times from curl output
- Visualizing JSON API data without writing a script
- Displaying year-over-year metrics as horizontal bars
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
INPUT
User asks: Show me a bar chart of fruit sales from a CSV
AGENT
- 1Pipe the CSV data into uplot
- 2Set comma as the delimiter with -d,
- 3Enable header parsing with -H
- 4Specify bar chart type
- 5Add a title with -t
OUTPUT
Unicode bar chart rendered inline in the terminal