ecopol-tables-figures
Use when an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript's exhibits are too technical for a policy reader or do not carry the policy message. Redesigns tables and figures for the EP dual audience; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecopol-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 and Figures (ecopol-tables-figures) ## When to trigger - A minister or central-bank reader could not extract the policy takeaway from your main exhibit - Tables are dense regression dumps with every coefficient and three sets of stars - The key magnitude is buried in a coefficient cell rather than shown as a headline effect - Figures lack the context (units, baseline, policy threshold) a non-economist needs - You are choosing which exhibits go in the accessible main text vs. the technical appendix ## EP exhibits serve two readers — design for the harder one EP is read by economists **and** policymakers, and presented to two discussants. The main-text exhibits must be legible to the policy reader; the regression machinery belongs in the appendix. The governing principle: **lead with figures that show the policy effect, demote dense tables to the appendix.** A good EP figure answers the policy question by itself — an event-study plot of the reform's effect over time, a map of treated regions, a bar of the welfare/cost decomposition — with a caption a non-specialist can read standalone. Note on house style: EP applies its template and copyediting at the commissioning/producti
- When to trigger
- EP exhibits serve two readers — design for the harder one
- Main-text vs. appendix split
- Craft moves for the policy reader
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ecopol-tables-figures skill do?
Use when an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript's exhibits are too technical for a policy reader or do not carry the policy message. Redesigns tables and figures for the EP dual audience; it does not invent evidence or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecopol-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 984 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.