ajps-tables-figures
Use when building tables and figures for an American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) manuscript. AJPS counts table/figure headers and notes toward the word limit, and the deposited code must regenerate every exhibit exactly for third-party verification. Designs self-contained, reproducible exhibits; it does not run the analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ajps-tables-figures --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Tables & Figures (ajps-tables-figures) Exhibits are where an expert reviewer checks whether the result is real — and at AJPS they carry two extra constraints. First, the **headers and notes of tables and figures count toward the word limit** (the body, notes, and printed captions are all in scope; references and online SI are not). Second, every exhibit must be **regenerated by the deposited code**, because a third-party verifier re-runs it against the main-text numbers. So each exhibit must earn its words *and* its reproducibility. ## When to trigger - Designing the main results table/figure or a key descriptive exhibit - Deciding what belongs in the article vs. the online Supporting Information (SI, <= 25 pages for original submissions) - A reviewer found an exhibit unclear, mislabeled, or not self-contained - Trimming to the word cap by moving exhibits to the SI ## Principles 1. **Self-contained.** A reader understands each exhibit from its title, axis/column labels, and note alone — state units, sample, N, and what the estimate is. (Keep notes tight: they count as words.) 2. **Figures over dense tables for effects.** Coefficient/forest plots, marginal-effects and predicted-pr
- When to trigger
- Principles
- Discipline-specific exhibits
- Exhibit-routing table (what AJPS referees expect to find where)
- Worked micro-example (illustrative numbers)
- Referee-pushback patterns and the venue-specific fix
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the ajps-tables-figures skill do?
Use when building tables and figures for an American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) manuscript. AJPS counts table/figure headers and notes toward the word limit, and the deposited code must regenerate every exhibit exactly for third-party verification. Designs self-contained, reproducible exhibits; it does not run the analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ajps-tables-figures --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.