io-tables-figures
Use when building tables and figures for an International Organization (IO) manuscript so exhibits are self-contained, accessible, reproducible, and count toward the word budget correctly. IO word limits include tables, figures, and notes (but exclude the bibliography), and exhibits must survive IO's pre-publication result verification. Designs exhibits; it does not run the analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill io-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 (io-tables-figures) Exhibits are where an expert IR reviewer checks whether the result is real — and where IO's editorial staff will later confirm the numbers reproduce. At IO they also **cost words**: the word limit **includes tables, figures, and notes** (it excludes the bibliography). So every exhibit must pull its weight, and every value must match the deposited code. ## When to trigger - Designing the main results table/figure or a key descriptive/measurement exhibit - Deciding what belongs in the article vs. the supplementary material (which should rarely exceed ~20 pp) - A reviewer found an exhibit unclear, mislabeled, or non-self-contained - Trimming to the word cap by moving exhibits to supplementary material ## Principles 1. **State the level explicitly.** IR exhibits are misread when the unit is implicit. Put the **unit of analysis** (state-year, directed-dyad-year, IGO, crisis) in the title or note, with the sample, N, time span, and what the quantity is. A dyadic coefficient and a monadic one look identical on a plot but mean different things. 2. **Plot effects; tabulate sparingly.** For the headline international effect, a coefficient/forest plot, a
- When to trigger
- Principles
- IR-specific exhibits
- Exhibit-placement decision table (article vs. SI, word-aware)
- Worked exhibit vignette (illustrative)
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the io-tables-figures skill do?
Use when building tables and figures for an International Organization (IO) manuscript so exhibits are self-contained, accessible, reproducible, and count toward the word budget correctly. IO word limits include tables, figures, and notes (but exclude the bibliography), and exhibits must survive IO's pre-publication result verification. Designs exhibits; it does not run the analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill io-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.