ecj-tables-figures
Use when finalizing the main exhibits (tables and figures) of a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript so each one carries economic content, reads to a general audience, and is self-contained. Sets exhibit design and notes standards; it does not decide which results to report (see ecj-robustness).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecj-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 (ecj-tables-figures) ## When to trigger - Tables are overloaded with columns; the reader cannot find the economic point - Figures are decorative rather than carrying the argument - Notes are thin — a reader cannot reconstruct units, sample, or specification from the exhibit alone - You are deciding what belongs in the main text vs. the online appendix, or working within the short-paper exhibit budget ## The EJ exhibit philosophy An EJ table or figure should be **self-contained and legible to a generalist**: a referee or non-specialist skimming exhibits should grasp the result, the magnitude, and what it means without hunting through the text. EJ's broad-interest, exposition-first identity makes this acute — an exhibit only your subfield can parse undersells the paper. Every exhibit must also be regenerated by the master script in the **Zenodo** replication deposit, so the numbers in the paper and the numbers the code produces must match exactly when the **EJ Data Editor** verifies them before final acceptance (see `ecj-replication-package`). The headline result usually deserves a *figure* (an event-study plot, a model-fit plot, a counterfactual) because magnitude
- When to trigger
- The EJ exhibit philosophy
- Tables
- Figures
- Main text vs. online appendix
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ecj-tables-figures skill do?
Use when finalizing the main exhibits (tables and figures) of a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript so each one carries economic content, reads to a general audience, and is self-contained. Sets exhibit design and notes standards; it does not decide which results to report (see ecj-robustness).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecj-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.