jep-exhibits-for-general-readers
Use when designing figures and tables for a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article aimed at a broad audience — clarity over density, self-explanatory exhibits. Handles exhibit design; defer prose evidence to jep-evidence-without-equations and overall structure to jep-narrative-arc.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jep-exhibits-for-general-readers --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.
# Exhibits for General Readers (jep-exhibits-for-general-readers) ## When to trigger - A figure or table was lifted straight from a research paper and is dense - A reader needs the caption *and* the body text to decode an exhibit - The piece has too many exhibits, or exhibits that don't advance the argument - A regression table with coefficients and asterisks is doing the explaining ## The JEP exhibit bar A JEP exhibit must be **self-explanatory to a non-specialist** and earn its place in the *argument*. Clarity beats density: the reader should grasp the point from the exhibit and its caption alone, in seconds, without parsing the methods. JEP avoids significance asterisks and coefficient-table presentation in favor of exhibits that *show the idea*. ## Design principles - **One exhibit, one point.** Each figure/table makes a single claim that maps to a step in the narrative arc. If it makes three points, split it or cut two. - **Self-explanatory title + caption.** The title states the *finding* ("Pass-through has fallen since 2000"), not the *variables* ("Price on cost, 1990–2020"). The caption gives source, units, and the one thing to notice. - **Figures over tables for trends and
- When to trigger
- The JEP exhibit bar
- Design principles
- Table discipline (when a table is right)
- Checklist
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jep-exhibits-for-general-readers skill do?
Use when designing figures and tables for a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article aimed at a broad audience — clarity over density, self-explanatory exhibits. Handles exhibit design; defer prose evidence to jep-evidence-without-equations and overall structure to jep-narrative-arc.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jep-exhibits-for-general-readers --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.