tar-tables-figures
Use when building or cleaning the exhibits for a The Accounting Review (TAR) manuscript — descriptive, correlation, and regression tables, event-study and discontinuity figures, experimental cell means, and analytical-model exhibits in Chicago house style and within the page budget. Finalizes exhibits; it does not run the analysis (tar-data-analysis) or polish prose (tar-writing-style).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill tar-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 (tar-tables-figures) ## When to trigger - Tables are cluttered, inconsistent, or not self-explanatory without the text - You need the standard archival table set (descriptives, correlations, main regression) - You are presenting a DiD/event study or RDD and need the right figure - The exhibit count is pushing the 55-page initial limit - A reviewer says "I cannot read the table" or "what is the economic magnitude?" ## TAR exhibit conventions TAR follows **The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.)** for citations and references and the AAA Manuscript Preparation Guide for layout (12-pt Times New Roman, double-spaced, 1-inch margins, serially numbered pages). Remember the **55-page initial limit includes tables, figures, and appendices** — so every exhibit must earn its space; move secondary results to an online appendix. Each table must be **self-contained**: a reader should understand it without the text. ## The standard archival table set 1. **Sample selection** — a stepwise screen from the raw database population to the final N, so the sample is reproducible (this also supports the data-authenticity requirement). 2. **Descriptive statistics** — N, mean, median, SD,
- When to trigger
- TAR exhibit conventions
- The standard archival table set
- Figures by design
- House-style hygiene
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the tar-tables-figures skill do?
Use when building or cleaning the exhibits for a The Accounting Review (TAR) manuscript — descriptive, correlation, and regression tables, event-study and discontinuity figures, experimental cell means, and analytical-model exhibits in Chicago house style and within the page budget. Finalizes exhibits; it does not run the analysis (tar-data-analysis) or polish prose (tar-writing-style).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill tar-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.