Richard Iannone - Great Tables for Everyone | SciPy 2024

Package “Great Tables” enables creation of publication-quality tables in Python with clean, readable formatting

Key features include:

• Custom fonts and themes
• Heat maps and color visualization
• Currency, date, scientific notation formatting
• Nano plots for visualizing trends within cells
• Column spanners and row grouping
• Customizable headers, titles and footnotes

Tables can be output as HTML and images, with LaTeX support coming soon

Built to work with both Pandas and Polars dataframes, with special selector syntax for Polars

Includes built-in accessibility features like colorblind-friendly palettes

Emphasizes reproducible workflows by creating tables programmatically instead of manual formatting

Offers interactive features like hoverable values in nano plots

Provides comprehensive formatting options:

• Scientific notation
• Currency codes
• Custom decimal places
• Unit symbols
• Greek characters
• Chemical formulas

Maintains a balance between data density and readability through smart formatting defaults

Available on PyPI with extensive documentation, examples gallery and blog posts