jop-tables-figures
Use when designing tables and figures for a The Journal of Politics (JOP) manuscript. JOP counts pages (not words) and includes tables and figures in the page limit, so exhibits must be self-contained, legible, regenerated by code, and economical with space. Designs exhibits; it does not run analyses.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jop-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 (jop-tables-figures) At JOP, exhibits compete directly for **pages**: tables and figures **count toward** the 35-page (Research Article) or 10-page (Short Article) limit. Every exhibit must earn its space, stand on its own, and be **regenerated by the deposited code** so the replication analyst's re-run matches the printed page. ## When to trigger - Designing or revising the main tables and figures - A reviewer found an exhibit unclear, overcrowded, or redundant - The paper is over the page budget and exhibits are the obvious place to cut - Deciding which exhibits belong in the main text vs the Online Appendix ## Principles - **Self-contained.** Title, units, N, and notes let the exhibit be read without the text. Define abbreviations and estimators in the note. - **Show the quantity of interest.** Prefer plots of marginal effects, predicted probabilities, or coefficients with CIs over dense coefficient dumps a general reader cannot parse. - **Legible in print and grayscale.** Colorblind-safe palettes; distinguishable line/point styles; vector output (PDF/EPS). - **One job per exhibit.** If a table tries to do three things, split it or move two to the appendix. ##
- When to trigger
- Principles
- Manage the page budget
- Reproducibility of exhibits
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Anti-patterns
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Referee pushback patterns and the JOP fix
- Exhibit pass for Journal of Politics
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the jop-tables-figures skill do?
Use when designing tables and figures for a The Journal of Politics (JOP) manuscript. JOP counts pages (not words) and includes tables and figures in the page limit, so exhibits must be self-contained, legible, regenerated by code, and economical with space. Designs exhibits; it does not run analyses.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jop-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.