Tables and charts have long been seen as effective ways to convey data. Much attention has been focused on improving charts, following ideas of human perception and brain function. Tables can also be viewed as two-dimensional representations of data, yet it is only fairly recently that we have begun to apply principles of design that aid the communication of information between the author and reader. In this study, we collated guidelines for the design of data and statistical tables. These guidelines fall under three principles: aiding comparisons, reducing visual clutter, and increasing readability. We surveyed tables published in recent issues of 43 journals in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology for their adherence to these three principles, as well as author guidelines on journal publisher websites. We found that most of the over 1,000 tables we sampled had no heavy grid lines and little visual clutter. They were also easy to read, with clear headers and horizontal orientation. However, most tables did not aid the vertical comparison of numeric data. We suggest that authors could improve their tables by the right-flush alignment of numeric columns typeset with a tabular font, clearly identify statistical significance, and use clear titles and captions. Journal publishers could easily implement these formatting guidelines when typesetting manuscripts. Methods Once we had established the above principles of table design, we assessed their use in issues of 43 widely read ecology and evolution journals (SI 2). Between January and July 2022, we reviewed the tables in the most recent issue published by these journals. For journals without issues (such as Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, or Biological Conservation), we examined the tables in issues published in a single month or in the entire most recent volume if few papers were published in that journal on a monthly basis. We reviewed only articles in a traditionally typeset format and published as a PDF or in print. We did not examine the tables in online versions of articles. Having identified all tables for review, we assessed whether these tables followed the above-described best practice principles for table design and, if not, we noted the way in which these tables failed to meet the outlined guidelines. We initially both reviewed the same 10 tables to ensure that we agreed in our assessment of whether these tables followed each of the principles. Having ensured agreement on how to classify tables, we proceeded to review all subsequent journals individually, while resolving any uncertainties collaboratively. These preliminary table evaluations also showed that assessing whether tables used long format or a tabular font was hard to evaluate objectively without knowing the data or the font used. Therefore, we did not systematically review the extent to which these two guidelines were adhered to.

Table A7 a tabular presentation of British Columbia expense by function, actual values 2005-06 through 2011-2012 and updated forecast for 2012-13 to 2014-15, including average annual change; Table A6 a tabular presentation of expense by function components percentage of GDP, growth rates and per capita amounts.

Abstract This article deals with the problem of translating statistical information given in other registers into the tabular register, from the following two objectives: 1) to study the performance of prospective teachers in translating information given in the other registers into the tabular register; and 2) to compare the performance of future teachers in the different translations. The study included 30 students, future teachers of the first school years, who were attending the 1st or 2nd year of the Degree in Basic Education, at a Higher Education School in the north of Portugal. The data of the present study were obtained through the answers given by the students to four questions, which required the translation of statistical information given in the graphic, numeric-verbal and simple data list register into the tabular register. In terms of results, it is noteworthy that students were more successful in building the simple frequency tables than in building the two two-way tables and the data table grouped into class intervals, the latter being the one that proved to be the most difficult. These results, related to the translation of different registers into the tabular register, are the main contribution of the study and imply that the prospective teachers must deepen their skills of tabular representation.

This word file contains the template for presentation of results in tabular format for mammalian toxicology studies, replacing the Appendix F of the EFSA administrative guidance on submission of dossiers and assessment reports for the peer‐review of pesticide active substances (EFSA, 2019; doi:10.2903/sp.efsa.2019.EN-1612). The filled-in template shall be used when compiling HTML tables or alternatively be uploaded in Attached (sanitised) documents for publication in the relevant endpoint study record.

If the information is added as a HTML table it can be included in the report generated, but it can not if it is attached.

Tabular presentation of the logarithms of the observed incidence rates, (), in the frame of the LLAPC model.

The tabular representation of the T2DM phenotype algorithm generated by PhenoMan using the T2DM ontology

Table A2.7 - A tabular presentation summarizing British Columbia expense by function, actual values, 2000-2001 through 2011-2012, including percent of average annual change; Table A2.8 A tabular presentation of British Columbia expense by function supplementary information, actual values, 2000-2001 through 2011-2012, including percent of average annual change.

Example tabular presentation of data for the scoping review.

A tabular presentation of the British Columbia government's financial position including budgeted and actual values at June 30, 2013, actual values at June 30, 2012, full year budget and forecast for 2013-14, and actual values for 2012-13.

Table A2.7 - A tabular presentation summarizing British Columbia expense by function, actual values, 2000-2001 through 2011-2012, including percent of average annual change; Table A2.8 A tabular presentation of British Columbia expense by function supplementary information, actual values, 2000-2001 through 2011-2012, including percent of average annual change.

Table A2.5 - A tabular presentation summarizing British Columbia revenue by source, actual values, 2000-2001 through 2011-2012, including percent of average annual change; Table A2.6 A tabular presentation of British Columbia revenue by source supplementary information, actual values, 2000-2001 through 2011-2012, including percent of average annual change.

A tabular presentation of British Columbia international goods exports by major market and selected commodities, 2012.

Table A2.5 - A tabular presentation summarizing British Columbia revenue by source, actual values, 2000-2001 through 2011-2012, including percent of average annual change; Table A2.6 A tabular presentation of British Columbia revenue by source supplementary information, actual values, 2000-2001 through 2011-2012, including percent of average annual change.

A tabular presentation of the British Columbia operating statement, including budgeted and actual values at September 30, 2012, actual values at September 30, 2011, full year budget and forecast for 2012-13, and actual values for 2011-12.

A tabular presentation of the United States exchange rate forecasts for 2012 and 2013 by 6 private sector institutions.

WikiDBs-10k (https://wikidbs.github.io/) is a corpus of relational databases built from Wikidata (https://www.wikidata.org/). This is the preliminary 10k version, the newer version of 100k databases (https://zenodo.org/records/11559814) includes more coherent databases and more diverse table and column names.

The WikiDBs-10k corpus consists of 10,000 databases, for more details read our paper: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3462/TADA3.pdf (TaDA@VLDB'23)

Each database is saved in a sub-folder, the table files are provided as csv files and the database schema as a json file.

We thank Till Döhmen and Madelon Hulsebos for generously providing the table statistics from their GitSchemas dataset and Jan-Micha Bodensohn for converting the dataset to SQLite files. This work has been supported by the BMBF and the state of Hesse as part of the NHR Program and the BMBF project KompAKI (grant number 02L19C150), as well as the HMWK cluster project 3AI. Finally, we want to thank hessian.AI, and DFKI Darmstadt for their support.

A tabular presentation summarizing British Columbia operating statements, actual values, 1999-2000 through 2010-2011, including average annual change.

WikiDBs is an open-source corpus of 100,000 relational databases. We aim to support research on tabular representation learning on multi-table data. The corpus is based on Wikidata and aims to follow certain characteristics of real-world databases.

WikiDBs was published as a spotlight paper at the Dataset & Benchmarks track at NeurIPS 2024.

WikiDBs contains the database schemas, as well as table contents. The database tables are provided as CSV files, and each database schema as JSON. The 100,000 databases are available in five splits, containing 20k databases each. In total, around 165 GB of disk space are needed for the full corpus. We also provide a script to convert the databases into SQLite.

A tabular presentation of the British Columbia government's revenue assumptions for the 2012-13 Budget and for the first and second 2012-13 quarterly reports.

Table A15 a tabular presentation of British Columbia key provincial debt indicators, actual values 2005-06 through 2011-2012 and updated forecast for 2012-13 to 2014-15, including debt to revenue ratio, debt per capita, percentage of GDP, interest bite, interest costs and interest rate.