jue-tables-figures
Use when the exhibits of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript must make the spatial pattern visible — maps, event-study plots, RD/boundary figures, and clean regression tables. Designs the spatial exhibits a JUE referee expects; it does not run the analysis (jue-robustness) or write the prose (jue-writing-style).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jue-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.
# Spatial Exhibits: Maps, Tables & Figures (jue-tables-figures) ## When to trigger - The paper has a spatial result but **no map** — the reader cannot see where the variation is - A boundary/RD or event-study design is in tables only; the figure that would convince is missing - Tables are dense with controls and the headline coefficient is hard to find - The geography of treatment vs control is described in words, not shown - Reviewers cannot tell whether the spatial pattern is real or an artifact of the units chosen ## Maps earn their place — but only when they carry information JUE is one of the few economics journals where a **map is often the central exhibit**, because the identifying variation is geographic. But a map must do econometric work, not decorate: - **Show the identifying variation, not just the data.** Map the treatment boundary, the corridor, the discontinuity, the shift-share exposure — the thing your design exploits — so the reader sees what generates the estimate. - **Make scale and units explicit.** State the spatial unit (tract, block, grid cell), include a scale bar and north arrow, and pick a classification (quantile vs equal-interval) that does not manufact
- When to trigger
- Maps earn their place — but only when they carry information
- Exhibit-by-design checklist
- Table craft for JUE
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Common map mistakes that draw referee fire
- What belongs in the appendix vs the main text
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- The one-figure test
- Output format
What does the jue-tables-figures skill do?
Use when the exhibits of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript must make the spatial pattern visible — maps, event-study plots, RD/boundary figures, and clean regression tables. Designs the spatial exhibits a JUE referee expects; it does not run the analysis (jue-robustness) or write the prose (jue-writing-style).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jue-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 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.