5 DESIGNING EFFECTIVE TABLES
In his book Fundamentals of Data Visualization, Claus Wilke writes that tables are “an important tool for visualizing data.” This statement might seem odd. Tables are often considered the opposite of data visualizations such as plots: a place to dump numbers for the few nerds who care to read them. But Wilke sees things differently.
Tables need not—and should not—be data dumps devoid of design. While bars, lines, and points in graphs are visualizations, so are numbers in a table, and we should care about their appearance. As an example, take a look at the tables made by reputable news sources; data dumps these ...
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