What do I need to use Data Slide Design?

The data and the point; The delivery mode; The audience's data fluency; The data's soft spots (optional).

Is Data Slide Design free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Data Slide Design

Q: How do I know the Data Slide Design output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The title asserts the takeaway; the chart proves it; One chart, with emphasis staged (highlight/dim) toward the point; ≤3 annotations, each pointing the eye somewhere specific; The honesty pass ran: axes, window, source, caveat.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cowork

Design slides where the data makes the argument — the takeaway-titled chart, the one-chart-per-slide rule, the annotation layer that guides the eye to the point, and the honesty pass on projected data. Use when asked make this data slide land, my chart slide confuses people, how do I present these numbers, or the audience missed the point of my graph. Produces the redesigned slide: takeaway title, the chart stripped and annotated, the eye-path check, and the honesty audit.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

What to give it

▸The data and the point — the chart (or numbers) and the one sentence it must prove; a chart without a committed point routes back to [deck-outline-first](../deck-outline-first/SKILL.md)

▸The delivery mode — projected (bigger, barer) vs. reading deck (annotations can carry more) — the [slide-density-rules](../slide-density-rules/SKILL.md) fork applies

▸The audience's data fluency — a room of analysts tolerates a scatter; a board wants the annotated line

▸The data's soft spots (optional) — the caveat, the small n, the definition change mid-series ([citation-hygiene](../citation-hygiene/SKILL.md): the as-of date and source line are non-optional)

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓The title asserts the takeaway; the chart proves it

✓One chart, with emphasis staged (highlight/dim) toward the point

✓≤3 annotations, each pointing the eye somewhere specific

✓The honesty pass ran: axes, window, source, caveat

✓The glance test returns the title's claim

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not title with the topic — neutral titles make the room do your job, badly

Do not show all series at equal weight — even emphasis is no emphasis

Do not persuade with the axes — emphasis is styling; truncation is lying

Do not hide the caveat — small-print honesty beats Q&A ambush arithmetic

Do not stack a second chart "for context" — context lives in the appendix; the slide has one job

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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