cps-tables-figures
Use when designing tables and figures for a Comparative Political Studies (CPS) manuscript so each exhibit is self-contained, comparative-legible, and SAGE-ready. Improves the exhibits; it does not run the analysis or set the data policy.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cps-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 (cps-tables-figures) CPS exhibits must carry the comparative argument on their own. A reviewer should grasp the cross-case or over-time story from the figure and its caption without hunting through the text. Because references, tables, and figures do **not** count toward the CPS word limit, exhibits are where you spend space — but only if each one earns its place. ## When to trigger - Building or revising the main-text tables and figures - A reviewer found exhibits unreadable, over-stuffed, or not self-contained - Deciding which exhibits belong in the paper vs. the supplementary/online appendix - Preparing figures for SAGE production (color, resolution, grayscale legibility) ## Exhibit priorities (in order) 1. **One main figure that *is* the finding.** For most CPS papers this is a coefficient/forest plot, an event-study plot around a reform, an RD plot, or a marginal-effects/predicted-probability plot — not a wall of regression coefficients. 2. **A clean main results table** with the headline specification and the key robustness columns only; push the full grid to the appendix. 3. **A comparative descriptive exhibit** showing the cross-case or over-time variatio
- When to trigger
- Exhibit priorities (in order)
- Make every exhibit self-contained
- Comparative-specific exhibit craft
- SAGE production notes (verify current specs)
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the cps-tables-figures skill do?
Use when designing tables and figures for a Comparative Political Studies (CPS) manuscript so each exhibit is self-contained, comparative-legible, and SAGE-ready. Improves the exhibits; it does not run the analysis or set the data policy.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cps-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.