znstrider / plottable

most pretty & lovely tables with matplotlib
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Beautiful tables in matplotlib.

plottable is a Python library for plotting beautifully customized, presentation ready tables in Matplotlib.

To learn about its functionality, have a look at the documentation.

Quickstart

Installation

pip install plottable

A Basic Example

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

from plottable import Table

d = pd.DataFrame(np.random.random((5, 5)), columns=["A", "B", "C", "D", "E"]).round(2)
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(6, 5))
tab = Table(d)

plt.show()

Redoing the Reactable 2019 Women's World Cup Predictions Visualization

You can find the notebook here

Styling A Table

There are three main ways to customize a table:

1) By supplying keywords to the Table
2) Providing a ColumnDefinition for each column you want to style
3) Accessing a tables rows or columns

Contributing

Contributors are very welcome to this project.

Please take a look at the Contributor Guide

Credits

plottable is built for the lack of good table packages in the python ecosystem. It draws inspiration from R packages gt and reactable, from blog posts about creating tables in matplotlib Tim Bayer: How to create custom tables and Son of a corner: Beautiful Tables in Matplotlib, a Tutorial and from matplotlibs own table module.