wp-data-analysis
Use when executing and reporting the analysis for a World Politics manuscript so it survives expert triple-blind review and the Dataverse replication requirement — honest uncertainty, robustness, and triangulation appropriate to comparative cross-national, qualitative, or formal-empirical work. Guides analysis norms; it does not fabricate results.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill wp-data-analysis --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.
# Data Analysis (wp-data-analysis) World Politics reviewers are methodologically demanding, and authors who **rely on quantitative data must deposit replication materials in the World Politics Dataverse** that let others reproduce the **exact numerical results** (see `wp-transparency-and-data-policy`). Analyze as if both are true — because they are. This skill covers execution and reporting norms; design decisions live in `wp-research-design`. ## When to trigger - Running main and supporting analyses; building the results/findings section - A reviewer asked for robustness, heterogeneity, or alternative specifications - Reconciling the cross-case pattern with within-case evidence (mixed methods) - Making the analysis reproducible before deposit ## Analysis norms World Politics expects 1. **Report uncertainty honestly.** Confidence/credible intervals, not just stars; the magnitude and substantive meaning of the estimate across cases, not just its significance. 2. **Robustness that probes, not decorates.** Show specifications that could *break* the result (alternative measures of regime/institution/conflict, alternative samples of cases, estimators, fixed effects), and say what you le
- When to trigger
- Analysis norms World Politics expects
- Qualitative / comparative-historical specifics
- Reproducibility while you work (not at the end)
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Anti-patterns
- Referee-pushback patterns and the World Politics fix
- Worked micro-example (illustrative numbers)
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the wp-data-analysis skill do?
Use when executing and reporting the analysis for a World Politics manuscript so it survives expert triple-blind review and the Dataverse replication requirement — honest uncertainty, robustness, and triangulation appropriate to comparative cross-national, qualitative, or formal-empirical work. Guides analysis norms; it does not fabricate results.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill wp-data-analysis --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.