Resources

Some Table Design Resources:

The Design Philosophy Behind Great Tables - Great post from Richard Iannone and Michael Chow about their inspirations for Great Tables / gt.
Show Me The Numbers - Stephen Few talks much more about design principles and cognitive psychology for both graphs and tables.
Table Rules in R - great blog post by Tom Mock about guidelines for table design
Tabular Presentation - The original manual from the Census Bureau, which helped to inspire gt/Great Tables. Very in-depth, and provides a lot of guidance, a little overwhelming.
Ten Guidelines for Better Tables - Jonathan Schwabish’s paper that Tom Mock (in the post above) uses as a framework.
Tables as Powerful Representational Tools - recommended by Michael Chow. It’s a bit more of a computer science approach to table design.

This part of the tutorial was heavily adapted from Rich Iannone and Michael Chow’s GT tutorial given at PositConf 2024. Highly recommended if you want to go further.