{"id":3712,"date":"2014-04-02T14:47:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T18:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2014-04-02T14:47:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T18:47:51","slug":"design-tips-for-data-tables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/02\/design-tips-for-data-tables\/","title":{"rendered":"Design tips for data tables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tt.png\" alt=\"tt\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3716\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most scientists have adopted minimalistic design principles for graphs. We still sometimes see 3D bar charts, but it&#8217;s rare. Data tables are another story. Sometimes journals take the formatting of data tables out of the hands of the authors. Perhaps they recognize that it&#8217;s an under-appreciated art. The default tables that come out of some programs are big, hairy, and incoherent.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no one formula for all data tables. It depends on the content and what story needs to be told. But <a href=\"http:\/\/darkhorseanalytics.com\">Darkhorse Analytics<\/a> nicely illustrates <a href=\"http:\/\/darkhorseanalytics.com\/blog\/clear-off-the-table\/\">the process of chipping away<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chartjunk\">chartjunk<\/a> to yield an efficient data table.<\/p>\n<h3>Before<\/h3>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/before.png\" alt=\"before\" width=\"581\" height=\"274\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3713\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/before.png 581w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/before-300x141.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>After<\/h3>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/after.png\" alt=\"after\" width=\"588\" height=\"254\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3714\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/after.png 588w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/after-300x129.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><script async class=\"speakerdeck-embed\" data-id=\"04a96e5097fe0131f14f22e87661b21d\" data-ratio=\"1.33333333333333\" src=\"\/\/speakerdeck.com\/assets\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/23\/visualizations\">More on Visualizations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p>Most scientists have adopted minimalistic design principles for graphs. We still sometimes see 3D bar charts, but it&#8217;s rare. Data tables are another story. Sometimes journals take the formatting of data tables out of the hands of the authors. Perhaps they recognize that it&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/02\/design-tips-for-data-tables\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-3712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips","tag-dissemination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3717,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions\/3717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}