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Publication-quality chart patterns for agentsociety-analysis Stage 4 refine — Okabe-Ito palettes, seaborn CI bands, small multiples, error bars, grayscale-safe encoding. Use when writing run-code chart scripts or reviewing chart QA failures.

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Scientific Visualization (bundled support)

Active only during agentsociety-analysis explore/refine/produce. Does not replace figure contracts or harness gates.

When to read

  • Writing charts/chart_NN_*.py via run-code
  • Chart failed squint test or validate-chart
  • User asks for better-looking or clearer plots

Read order

  1. references/charts.md
  2. references/chart-recipes.md
  3. assets/chart_scaffold.reference.py
  4. references/api.md

Absorbed sources (patterns only — no external deps required)

SourceAbsorbed
K-Dense scientific-visualizationOkabe-Ito, CI/error bars, multi-panel labels, grayscale test
seabornset_theme(ticks, paper, colorblind), lineplot CI, boxplot+stripplot
Observable PlotDefaults-first workflow, faceting, shared scales
TufteSmall multiples, chart junk removal
Cursor canvasMandatory metric titles, axis units, source in caption

AgentSociety overrides

  • English-only legend text
  • matplotlib Agg required
  • Simulation caveats — no overstated significance
  • Semantic palette locked per condition across report
  • PNG in assets/ required; interactive HTML optional

Quick invoke

Copy scaffold → pick recipe letter (A–G) → fill SQL/pandas → save_chart_bundle → rubric → compose-figure if needed.