Jupyter notebook display two pandas tables side by side

Question

I have two pandas dataframes and I would like to display them in Jupyter notebook.

Doing something like:

display(df1)
display(df2)

Answer 1

Starting from pandas 0.17.1 the visualization of DataFrames can be directly modified with pandas styling methods

To display two DataFrames side by side you must use set_table_attributes with the argument "style='display:inline'" as suggested in ntg answer. This will return two Styler objects. To display the aligned dataframes just pass their joined HTML representation through the display_html method from IPython.

With this method is also easier to add other styling options. Here's how to add a caption, as requested here:

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd   
from IPython.display import display_html 

df1 = pd.DataFrame(np.arange(12).reshape((3,4)),columns=['A','B','C','D',])
df2 = pd.DataFrame(np.arange(16).reshape((4,4)),columns=['A','B','C','D',])

df1_styler = df1.style.set_table_attributes("style='display:inline'").set_caption('Caption table 1')
df2_styler = df2.style.set_table_attributes("style='display:inline'").set_caption('Caption table 2')

display_html(df1_styler._repr_html_()+df2_styler._repr_html_(), raw=True)

Answer 2

Gibbone's answer worked for me! If you want extra space between the tables go to the code he proposed and add this "\xa0\xa0\xa0" to the following code line.

display_html(df1_styler._repr_html_()+"\xa0\xa0\xa0"+df2_styler._repr_html_(), raw=True)

Answer 3

You could override the CSS of the output code. It uses flex-direction: column by default. Try changing it to row instead. Here's an example:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from IPython.display import display, HTML

CSS = """
.output {
    flex-direction: row;
}
"""

HTML('<style>{}</style>'.format(CSS))

You could, of course, customize the CSS further as you wish.

If you wish to target only one cell's output, try using the :nth-child() selector. For example, this code will modify the CSS of the output of only the 5th cell in the notebook:

CSS = """
div.cell:nth-child(5) .output {
    flex-direction: row;
}
"""

Answer 4

My solution just builds a table in HTML without any CSS hacks and outputs it:

import pandas as pd
from IPython.display import display,HTML

def multi_column_df_display(list_dfs, cols=3):
    html_table = "<table style='width:100%; border:0px'>{content}</table>"
    html_row = "<tr style='border:0px'>{content}</tr>"
    html_cell = "<td style='width:{width}%;vertical-align:top;border:0px'>{{content}}</td>"
    html_cell = html_cell.format(width=100/cols)

    cells = [ html_cell.format(content=df.to_html()) for df in list_dfs ]
    cells += (cols - (len(list_dfs)%cols)) * [html_cell.format(content="")] # pad
    rows = [ html_row.format(content="".join(cells[i:i+cols])) for i in range(0,len(cells),cols)]
    display(HTML(html_table.format(content="".join(rows))))

list_dfs = []
list_dfs.append( pd.DataFrame(2*[{"x":"hello"}]) )
list_dfs.append( pd.DataFrame(2*[{"x":"world"}]) )
multi_column_df_display(2*list_dfs)

Answer 5

This adds headers to @nts's answer:

from IPython.display import display_html

def mydisplay(dfs, names=[]):
    html_str = ''
    if names:
        html_str += ('<tr>' + 
                     ''.join(f'<td style="text-align:center">{name}</td>' for name in names) + 
                     '</tr>')
    html_str += ('<tr>' + 
                 ''.join(f'<td style="vertical-align:top"> {df.to_html(index=False)}</td>' 
                         for df in dfs) + 
                 '</tr>')
    html_str = f'<table>{html_str}</table>'
    html_str = html_str.replace('table','table style="display:inline"')
    display_html(html_str, raw=True)

Answer 6

@zarak code is pretty small but affects the layout of the whole notebook. Other options are a bit messy for me.

I've added some clear CSS to this answer affecting only current cell output. Also you are able to add anything below or above dataframes.

from ipywidgets import widgets, Layout
from IPython import display
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

# sample data
df1 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(8, 3))
df2 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(8, 3))

# create output widgets
widget1 = widgets.Output()
widget2 = widgets.Output()

# render in output widgets
with widget1:
    display.display(df1.style.set_caption('First dataframe'))
    df1.info()
with widget2:
    display.display(df2.style.set_caption('Second dataframe'))
    df1.info()


# add some CSS styles to distribute free space
box_layout = Layout(display='flex',
                    flex_flow='row',
                    justify_content='space-around',
                    width='auto'
                   )
    
# create Horisontal Box container
hbox = widgets.HBox([widget1, widget2], layout=box_layout)

# render hbox
hbox