commres-tables-figures
Use when building tables and figures for a Communication Research (CR) manuscript so exhibits are self-contained, accessible, and formatted to APA. CR is quantitative, so exhibits must show effect sizes and uncertainty, not just stars. Designs exhibits; it does not run the analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill commres-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 (commres-tables-figures) Exhibits are where a CR reviewer checks whether the result is real and whether the **mechanism** holds. Because CR is a quantitative, APA-reporting journal, every table and figure must show **effect sizes and uncertainty**, not significance stars alone, and follow **APA** formatting. ## When to trigger - Designing the main results table/figure or a key descriptive/measurement exhibit - Deciding what belongs in the article vs. the online supplement - A reviewer found an exhibit unclear, mislabeled, or not self-contained - Presenting mediation/moderation results readably ## Principles 1. **Self-contained.** A reader should understand each exhibit from its title, column/axis labels, and note alone — without hunting through the text. State units, sample, N, and what the estimate is. 2. **Show magnitude and uncertainty.** Report effect sizes (d, η²ₚ, standardized β, R²) with CIs or SDs. Coefficient/forest plots, marginal-effects and predicted-value plots, **mediation path diagrams**, and **interaction (simple-slopes) plots** communicate better than a wall of coefficients. 3. **APA format.** Table/figure numbering, titles, and notes per **APA**
- When to trigger
- Principles
- Discipline-specific exhibits
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Anti-patterns
- Exhibit pass for Communication Research
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the commres-tables-figures skill do?
Use when building tables and figures for a Communication Research (CR) manuscript so exhibits are self-contained, accessible, and formatted to APA. CR is quantitative, so exhibits must show effect sizes and uncertainty, not just stars. Designs exhibits; it does not run the analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill commres-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.