jole-tables-figures
Use when designing tables and figures for a Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) manuscript under the journal's word economy — each full-page table or figure counts as 500 words toward the ~20,000-word limit. Makes exhibits earn their space; it does not run the analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jole-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 (jole-tables-figures) ## When to trigger - The main table has many columns and the paper is getting long - You are unsure whether a result should be a table, a figure, or appendix-only - Exhibits are pushing the manuscript toward or past the word limit - Notes under tables/figures are not self-contained ## JOLE's exhibit economy (this is the distinctive constraint) JOLE does **not normally publish articles exceeding 20,000 words, and it counts a full-page table or figure as 500 words** toward that total. That rule changes how you design exhibits: **every full page of tables/figures costs you 500 words of text.** A paper with ten full-page exhibits has spent 5,000 words before a single sentence. So the discipline is: - **Promote only the headline exhibits to the body.** The 1–3 results that carry the paper become main tables/figures; everything else goes to the online appendix. - **Consolidate.** Combine related specifications into one well-organized table rather than several; a tight panel beats five thin ones. - **Prefer a figure when it carries the result more efficiently** (event-study plots, RDD discontinuity plots, binscatters, wage-profile and decomposition
- When to trigger
- JOLE's exhibit economy (this is the distinctive constraint)
- Designing the main exhibits
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jole-tables-figures skill do?
Use when designing tables and figures for a Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) manuscript under the journal's word economy — each full-page table or figure counts as 500 words toward the ~20,000-word limit. Makes exhibits earn their space; it does not run the analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jole-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.