newms-tables-figures
Use when building exhibits for a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript — quote/excerpt tables, coding-scheme tables, network and computational figures, and screenshots of platform interfaces. Makes exhibits clear and self-contained; it does not run the analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill newms-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 (newms-tables-figures) NM&S exhibits must be self-contained and legible to an interdisciplinary readership — a discourse scholar should grasp your network figure, and a computational scholar should grasp your quote table. **Crucially, NM&S counts tables and figures toward the ~8,000-word target** (the limit is all text including notes, references, tables, and charts), so every exhibit must earn its space. ## When to trigger - Designing any table or figure, including qualitative exhibits and platform screenshots - A reviewer found an exhibit unclear, redundant, or unconvincing - Deciding what to keep in-text vs. trim, given the strict word/space budget ## Exhibit types and what NM&S expects | Exhibit | Make it carry | Common failure | |---------|---------------|----------------| | Quote / excerpt table | each quote tied to a claim + informant ID | a wall of decontextualized quotes | | Coding-scheme table | categories, definitions, example, reliability | categories with no definitions | | Descriptive / content-distribution table | counts + proportions + uncertainty | raw counts only | | Network figure | what nodes/edges mean, layout logic | a hairball with no legen
- When to trigger
- Exhibit types and what NM&S expects
- Design principles (NM&S house expectations)
- Qualitative exhibits matter at NM&S
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Referee pushback → NM&S-specific fix
- Calibration anchors
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the newms-tables-figures skill do?
Use when building exhibits for a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript — quote/excerpt tables, coding-scheme tables, network and computational figures, and screenshots of platform interfaces. Makes exhibits clear and self-contained; it does not run the analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill newms-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.