From asr-skills
Designs ASA-formatted tables and figures for American Sociological Review manuscripts. Helps decide exhibit content, format, and placement for masked review.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/asr-skills:asr-tables-figuresThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Exhibits are where a masked reviewer checks whether the result is real. ASR **excludes tables and
Exhibits are where a masked reviewer checks whether the result is real. ASR excludes tables and figures from the 15,000-word limit (text, references, and footnotes count) — so you are not penalized for a clear exhibit, but it must earn its place and stand on its own.
The ASA flagship admits exhibits from every tradition but holds them to one standard: a reviewer who may not share your method must be able to read the evidence unaided. Match the exhibit to the tradition, then verify it carries magnitude and uncertainty.
| Tradition | Workhorse exhibit | The note must state |
|---|---|---|
| Quant / stratification | coefficient/marginal-effects plot, mobility table | N, weights, estimator, what the estimate is |
| Demography | survival curve, Lexis surface, decomposition | population, period, age structure |
| Comparative-historical | evidence table (claim → sources), timeline | case set, source provenance |
| Ethnographic | coded-excerpt table with contrary instances | coding scheme, anonymization |
| Network / computational | graph, sequence chronogram, validation table | boundary spec, validation against labels |
A main results table for an administrative-data study of gender wage gaps is redesigned for ASR.
Before: 6 columns of coefficients, stars only, no note → reviewer can't tell magnitude or sample
After: marginal-effects plot — adjusted gap 14.2% (95% CI 11.8–16.6), N=412,000, survey-weighted,
occupation + firm FE; grayscale-legible, colorblind-safe palette
Self-contained note (illustrative): "Predicted gap from a weighted model; bars are 95% CIs;
estimates reproduce from master.R, seed=11."
The redesign makes the exhibit stand alone, leads with the substantive magnitude an inequality scholar cares about, and ties the numbers to the shared script.
【Main exhibit】what it shows + why a table/figure
【Self-contained?】title + labels + note + N/units/weights present? [Y/N]
【Magnitude + uncertainty shown?】[Y/N]
【Accessible?】grayscale-legible + colorblind-safe? [Y/N]
【Reproducible / faithful?】matches script or coded data? [Y/N]
【Next】asr-writing-style
../../resources/external_tools.md — plotting, demography, and network visualization tools../../resources/official-source-map.md — word-count rule (tables/figures excluded) and ASA Style Guidenpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin asr-skillsDesigns tables and figures for APSR manuscripts that are self-contained, accessible, and word-budget-aware. Assists with exhibit placement, colorblind-safe rendering, and reproducibility checks.
Designs self-contained tables and figures for SPQ manuscripts following ASA Style Guide, making the structure–individual link clear for a mixed sociology/psychology readership. Does not run analyses.
Designs self-contained, reproducible tables and figures for AJPS manuscripts, respecting word limits and verification requirements.