A
table is a data layout that presents data as rows and columns. Well suited to human interpretation, tables have been in use for thousands of years to visually represent data. The earliest-known tables date back to the fourth millenium B.C., and are among the earliest known examples of writing.
See also edit
- Displaying tables
- grid
- a layout manager based on the table concept.
- dictionary
- A "dictionary" or "matrix" is used when referring to a data structure that holds tabular data and look up by key value.
- matrix
- Multicolumn listbox
- used when referring to layout multi-dimensional data in tabular way.
- nested list
- :new
- record
- spreadsheet
- Sqawk
- Tables
- TclRal
- an implementation of Relational Algebra
- Tktable
- tbmerge
Resources edit
- Exploring the Origins of Tables for Information Visualization
,Francis T. Marchese ,2011 - The Origins of Writing, the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
2001-02-23: So, where is the code from
RS that was used to pretty-printing a list of lists?
PYK 2014-01-01: It was moved to
dictionary.
