jel-tables-figures
Use when building exhibits for a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) survey — summary "who-found-what" tables, conceptual/framework figures, and meta-evidence exhibits that synthesize across studies. Designs survey exhibits; it does not produce original-estimate regression tables (a JEL survey reports no new estimates of its own).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jel-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 for a Survey (jel-tables-figures) ## When to trigger - The synthesis is done and the reader needs to *see* the field at a glance - A controversy or a body of estimates would be clearer as a table than as prose - The organizing framework would land better as a diagram - You are tempted to paste a regression table — but this is a survey, not a primary paper ## The three exhibit types a JEL survey actually uses JEL exhibits **summarize across the literature**; they do not present the author's own estimation. The workhorses: | Exhibit | Purpose | Design notes | |---------|---------|--------------| | **Who-found-what summary table** | one row per study (or per design class): question/estimand, method, sample, finding (direction + magnitude), credibility note | rows ordered by the framework's cells, not chronology; columns let the reader compare *comparable* objects | | **Conceptual / framework figure** | render the organizing spine — taxonomy tree, mechanism diagram, the simple unifying model | this is often the survey's signature exhibit; it should be restate-able from memory | | **Meta-evidence exhibit** | a forest-style plot or funnel of effect sizes, a timeline of
- When to trigger
- The three exhibit types a JEL survey actually uses
- Building a credible summary table
- Meta-analysis caution
- Reproduced vs. re-drawn figures
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jel-tables-figures skill do?
Use when building exhibits for a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) survey — summary "who-found-what" tables, conceptual/framework figures, and meta-evidence exhibits that synthesize across studies. Designs survey exhibits; it does not produce original-estimate regression tables (a JEL survey reports no new estimates of its own).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jel-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.