Tables are great to visualize data in a structured way. Unfortunately, too often I see tables which are cluttered and difficult to read and interpret. It takes little to make them more presentable and easier to read. This post advocates tidy and lean tables, to the benefit of the reader. 1. Add a caption which … [Read more…]
Ideally, tables are quickly and easily readable. Removing repetitive content helps the reader to grasp the essential result quicker and makes tables more readable. A possible option to make a table more readable is to replace repetitive content across a column with an arrow. Preparations We will use TikZ to draw an arrow from … [Read more…]
Since Apple introduced alternately colored rows in their lists in Mac OS X, it has become more and more popular to color tables in LaTeX in a similar fashion. Usually, this can be achieved fairly easily, see my post on the topic here. However, when using multirow, things become slightly more complicated. In this post, … [Read more…]
Inspired by a question in the latex-community.org forum and on the basis of a solution to a similar question on tex.SX, I came up with some code to plot a heatmap based on matrix in form of a standard tabular environment. Single color example I will first consider a more basic case where the … [Read more…]