Display the Pandas DataFrame in table style

In this article, we’ll see how we can display a DataFrame in the form of a table with borders around rows and columns. It’s necessary to display the DataFrame in the form of a table as it helps in proper and easy visualization of the data. Now, let’s look at a few ways with the help of examples in which we can achieve this.

Example 1: One way to display a dataframe in the form of a table is by using the display() function of IPython.display.

Python3

# importing the modules
from IPython.display import display
import pandas as pd

# creating a DataFrame
dict = {'Name' : ['Martha', 'Tim', 'Rob', 'Georgia'],
        'Maths' : [87, 91, 97, 95],
        'Science' : [83, 99, 84, 76]}
df = pd.DataFrame(dict)

# displaying the DataFrame
display(df)

Output :

Example 2: In this example we’ll use DataFrame.style. It returns a Styler object, which has useful methods for formatting and displaying DataFrames.

Python3

# importing the module
import pandas as pd

# creating a DataFrame
dict = {'Name' : ['Martha', 'Tim', 'Rob', 'Georgia'],
        'Maths' : [87, 91, 97, 95],
        'Science' : [83, 99, 84, 76]}
df = pd.DataFrame(dict)

# displaying the DataFrame
df.style

Output :

Example 3 : Using DataFrame.style we can also add different styles to our dataframe table. Like, in this example we’ll display all the values greater than 90 using the blue colour and rest with black. To achieve this we’ll use DataFrame.style.applymap() to traverse through all the values of the table and apply the style.

Python3

# importing the modules
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

def color_negative_red(val):
    """
    Takes a scalar and returns a string with
    the css property `'color: red'` for negative
    strings, black otherwise.
    """
    color = 'blue' if val > 90 else 'black'
    return 'color: % s' % color

# creating a DataFrame
dict = {'Maths' : [87, 91, 97, 95],
        'Science' : [83, 99, 84, 76]}
df = pd.DataFrame(dict)

# displaying the DataFrame
df.style.applymap(color_negative_red)

Output :

Example 4 : We can also use a library called tabulate for this purpose. It is a library which contains different styles in which dataframes can be displayed. In this example we’ll use the "psql" style.

Python3

# importing the modules
from tabulate import tabulate
import pandas as pd

# creating a DataFrame
dict = {'Name':['Martha', 'Tim', 'Rob', 'Georgia'],
        'Maths':[87, 91, 97, 95],
        'Science':[83, 99, 84, 76]}
df = pd.DataFrame(dict)

# displaying the DataFrame
print(tabulate(df, headers = 'keys', tablefmt = 'psql'))

Output :

Below are all the styles that you can use :

• “plain”
• “simple”
• “github”
• “grid”
• “fancy_grid”
• “pipe”
• “orgtbl”
• “jira”
• “presto”
• “pretty”
• “psql”
• “rst”
• “mediawiki”
• “moinmoin”
• “youtrack”
• “html”
• “latex”
• “latex_raw”
• “latex_booktabs”
• “textile”