@bicharts/chart-mcp 0.5.96 → 0.5.98

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@bicharts/chart-mcp",
-  "version": "0.5.96",
+  "version": "0.5.98",
   "description": "MCP (Model Context Protocol) stdio server for BIC AI charts: profile a dataset locally, then generate chart code that has passed the BIC backend's render gates. Works with any MCP-capable client (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Copilot Studio). Requires a BIC trial or paid account.",
   "keywords": [
     "mcp",
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@
     "zod": "^3.23.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@bicharts/chart-host": "^0.5.96",
-    "@bicharts/shape-core": "^0.5.96",
+    "@bicharts/chart-host": "^0.5.98",
+    "@bicharts/shape-core": "^0.5.98",
     "@types/node": "^20.0.0",
     "@types/papaparse": "^5.3.14",
     "esbuild": "^0.28.1",

package/skills/bic-charts/CHART-SHAPES.md

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ on the same picture, not a looser one.
 | 3D scatter plot | 3 continuous | needs 700x480 px | D3, Plotly | Three continuous measures whose joint structure is the question, on a tile large enough to turn. To read exact values off three or more measures, Pair plot (scatter matrix) and Parallel coordinates are both more precise |
 | Animated bar chart | 1 categorical, 1 continuous, 5+ time points | <=40 categories, needs 360x300 px | D3 | Requires one categorical, one measure and a time column with 5 or more ordered periods; best for a leaderboard that changes over time (top products by year, teams by season, countries by decade) |
 | Animated treemap | 2 categorical, 1 continuous, 3+ time points | needs 800x560 px | D3 | Requires a 2-level categorical hierarchy plus an additive measure observed at 3 or more ordered time points |
+| Animated World (Bubbles) | 3+ time points, lat/lon | needs 400x320 px | D3 | Best for a measure per place observed at 3 or more ordered time points - revenue by country by year, openings by city by quarter, throughput by port by month - when the question is how each place changed rather than where it ranks |
 | Animated World Choropleth | 1 categorical, 3+ time points, geo: country-iso3/country-iso2/country-name | <=250 categories, needs 400x300 px | D3 | Best for a country-level measure observed at 3 or more ordered time points — watch how sales, users, or population shift across countries year by year |
 | Annotated heatmap | 2 categorical, 1 continuous | <=20 categories, needs 320x280 px | D3, Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn | Requires two variables: categorical × categorical with values |
 | Arc diagram | 2 categorical | <=50 nodes, needs 380x240 px | D3 | Best for 5-50 nodes and a sparse-to-medium-density set of pairwise relationships |
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@ on the same picture, not a looser one.
 | Hexbin plot | 2 continuous | needs 280x280 px | D3, Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn | Requires two continuous variables |
 | Histogram | 1 continuous | needs 400x300 px | D3, Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn | Requires one continuous variable |
 | Horizon chart | 1 categorical, 1 continuous, 12+ time points | needs 800x560 px | D3, Matplotlib, Plotly | Best for dense time series dashboards. |
-| Horizontal/vertical span plot | 1 continuous | needs 400x300 px | D3, Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn | Requires one continuous variable with ranges to highlight |
+| Horizontal/vertical span plot | 1 categorical, 2 continuous | needs 400x300 px | D3, Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn | Requires a category and two numeric bounds per category - a low and a high, or a start and an end - on one shared scale |
 | Icicle plot | 2 categorical, 1 continuous | <=60 leaves, needs 320x240 px | D3, Plotly | Best for 2-4 levels of hierarchy with ≤ ~50 leaves; an alternative to a sunburst when horizontal/vertical scanning is preferred |
 | Joint plot | 2 continuous | needs 360x280 px | D3, Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn | Requires two continuous variables |
 | KDE plot (1D & 2D) | 1 continuous | needs 400x300 px | D3, Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn, Statsmodels | Requires one continuous variable (or two for 2D KDE) |