expecon-tables-figures
Use when an Experimental Economics (ExpEcon) manuscript's exhibits must make the treatment contrast and its uncertainty visible at a glance. Builds design-carrying tables and figures; it does not run analysis or draft prose.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill expecon-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 (expecon-tables-figures) ## When to trigger - A reader cannot see the treatment effect from your main figure without reading the text - Tables report regression coefficients but never show the raw treatment means and their spread - Time/round dynamics (learning, convergence, decay) are hidden inside aggregate numbers - Error bars, units, or the inference level on a plot are ambiguous or wrong ## The treatment-comparison figure is the paper's spine At a method-defined journal, the central exhibit is almost always a **comparison across treatments**, and a referee should grasp the result from it alone. Design it to do three jobs. 1. **Show the contrast directly.** Plot the primary outcome by treatment — bars or dot-and-CI for means, but **prefer showing the distribution** (box/violin, or a CDF when distributions differ in shape, not just level). A CDF often reveals that a "no mean effect" masks a shift in the tails. 2. **Show uncertainty at the right level.** Error bars / CIs must reflect the **independent unit** (session/matching-group), not per-decision noise. State the level in the note. Mismatched error bars are an instant credibility hit at this journal. 3. *
- When to trigger
- The treatment-comparison figure is the paper's spine
- House conventions experimentalists expect
- Exhibit-by-exhibit plan for a typical paper
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Common scale and encoding traps
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the expecon-tables-figures skill do?
Use when an Experimental Economics (ExpEcon) manuscript's exhibits must make the treatment contrast and its uncertainty visible at a glance. Builds design-carrying tables and figures; it does not run analysis or draft prose.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill expecon-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.