apsr-tables-figures
Use when building tables and figures for an American Political Science Review (APSR) manuscript so exhibits are self-contained, accessible, and count toward the word budget correctly. APSR word counts include tables, figures, and printed footnotes, so exhibits must earn their space. Designs exhibits; it does not run the analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill apsr-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 (apsr-tables-figures) Exhibits are where an expert reviewer checks whether the result is real. At APSR they also **cost words**: the word count "includes tables, figures, and footnotes that appear in the published text" (it excludes the reference list and online appendices). So every exhibit must pull its weight. ## When to trigger - Designing the main results table/figure or a key descriptive exhibit - Deciding what belongs in the article vs. the online appendix - A reviewer found an exhibit unclear, mislabeled, or non-self-contained - Trimming to the word cap by moving exhibits to the appendix ## Principles 1. **Self-contained.** A reader should understand each exhibit from its title, axis/column labels, and note alone — without hunting through the text. State units, sample, N, and what the estimate is. 2. **Figures over dense tables for effects.** Coefficient/forest plots, marginal-effects and predicted-probability plots, event-study and RD plots communicate magnitude and uncertainty better than a wall of coefficients. Show intervals. 3. **Accessible.** Colorblind-safe palettes; legible in grayscale; no chartjunk, no 3D, no needless color. Reviewers and reader
- When to trigger
- Principles
- Discipline-specific exhibits
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the apsr-tables-figures skill do?
Use when building tables and figures for an American Political Science Review (APSR) manuscript so exhibits are self-contained, accessible, and count toward the word budget correctly. APSR word counts include tables, figures, and printed footnotes, so exhibits must earn their space. Designs exhibits; it does not run the analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill apsr-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.