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| title: "PyCon 2024: Making Beautiful, Publication Quality Tables is Possible in 2024" | ||
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| author: Michael Chow | ||
| date: 2024-05-16 | ||
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| The Great Tables crew is excited to share that we'll be presenting on tables at PyCon 2024! | ||
| If you're around and want to meet, be sure to stop by the Posit Booth, or reach out on linkedin to [Rich](https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-iannone-a5640017/) or [Michael](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-a-chow/)! | ||
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| The talk, Making Beautiful, Publication Quality Tables is Possible in 2024 is [10:45am Friday](https://us.pycon.org/2024/schedule/presentation/65/). | ||
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| In addition to the talk, there are two other events worth mentioning: | ||
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| * The [2024 Table Contest](https://posit.co/blog/announcing-the-2024-table-contest/) | ||
| * Our [upcoming table workshop](https://reg.conf.posit.co/flow/posit/positconf24/publiccatalog/page/publiccatalog/session/1707334049004001S0l2) at posit::conf 2024 | ||
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| ## What's the presentation about? | ||
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| Publication quality tables are a critical form of data visualization, that is easy to miss in | ||
| favor of charts and graphs. We're excited to focus on how... | ||
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| * tables are used in areas like sports and medicine. | ||
| * Great Tables provides a systematic approach to structuring, styling, and formatting tables. | ||
| * nanoplots combine the trend-emphasizing of graphs with the compactness of a table. | ||
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| Throughout the presentation, we'll focus on making this example from a fictitious coffee device shop ([notebook](https://github.com/machow/coffee-sales-data/blob/main/example_notebook.ipynb)): | ||
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| <div style="zoom: .80"> | ||
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| {{< include table.html >}} | ||
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| </div> | ||
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| Each row of this table is a product sold over the past year (with a total at the bottom). | ||
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| Note three important pieces: | ||
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| 1. **Icons** help people quickly identify products of interest. | ||
| 2. **Background color** distinguishes between revenue and profit measures. | ||
| 3. **The nanoplot** on the right shows a tiny bargraph for monthly sales over the past year. This makes | ||
| it easy to spot trends, and can be hovered over to get exact values. | ||
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| Critically, the code for this table used the DataFrame library [Polars](https://pola.rs/), which | ||
| makes it really [easy to select rows and columns for styling](../polars-styling). | ||
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| ## What's next? | ||
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| ### The 2024 Table Contest | ||
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| The world's premier display table contest---the [4th annual Table Contest](https://posit.co/blog/announcing-the-2024-table-contest/) draws competitors from near and far, | ||
| to showcase the latest and greatest examples in table presentation. | ||
| The contest is happening now, with **submissions due by May 31st, 2024**. | ||
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| For inspiration, see these resources: | ||
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| * [Contest announcement](https://posit.co/blog/announcing-the-2024-table-contest/) | ||
| * [2022 winners and honorable mentions](https://posit.co/blog/winners-of-the-2022-table-contest/) | ||
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| ### posit::conf() workshop | ||
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| We're planning a posit::conf() 2024 workshop in August, called [Making Tables with gt and Great Tables](https://reg.conf.posit.co/flow/posit/positconf24/publiccatalog/page/publiccatalog/session/1707334049004001S0l2). | ||
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| If you're curious about making beautiful, publication quality tables in Python or R, we'd love to have you! | ||
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| We’ll cover the following: | ||
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| * Create table components and put them together (e.g., header, footer, stub, etc.) | ||
| * Format cell values (numeric/scientific, date/datetime, etc.) | ||
| * Rearranging columns and handling column value alignments | ||
| * Styling the table, either through data values or on a more granular level | ||
| * Adding icons, plots, images, and incorporating your own HTML | ||
| * and more! | ||
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| ## Extra resources | ||
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| Check out these resources to learn more about the wild and beautiful life of display tables: | ||
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| * [Great Tables example gallery](/docs/examples) | ||
| * [The Design Philosophy of Great Tables (blog post)](http://localhost:6877/blog/design-philosophy/) | ||
| * [20 Minute Table Tutorial by Albert Rapp](https://youtu.be/ESyWcOFuMQc?si=1_bBRZEKENFKVNpB) | ||
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| ## Hope all your tables are great! | ||
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| A huge thanks to all the people who have contributed to Great Tables over the past year. | ||
| It's been a really incredible journey. | ||
| Hope to see you at PyCon 2024! |
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