python - Export a Pandas dataframe as a table image

Question

Is it possible to export a Pandas dataframe as an image file? Something like df.to_png() or df.to_table().savefig('table.png').

At the moment I export a dataframe using df.to_csv(). I then open this csv file in Excel to make the data look pretty and then copy / paste the Excel table into Powerpoint as an image. I see matplotlib has a .table() method, but I'm having trouble getting it to work with my df.

The data frame I'm using has 5 columns and 5 rows and each 'cell' is a number.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26678467/export-a-pandas-dataframe-as-a-table-image

Answer 1

With some additional code, you can even make output look decent:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import six

df = pd.DataFrame()
df['date'] = ['2016-04-01', '2016-04-02', '2016-04-03']
df['calories'] = [2200, 2100, 1500]
df['sleep hours'] = [2200, 2100, 1500]
df['gym'] = [True, False, False]


def render_mpl_table(data, col_width=3.0, row_height=0.625, font_size=14,
                     header_color='#40466e', row_colors=['#f1f1f2', 'w'], edge_color='w',
                     bbox=[0, 0, 1, 1], header_columns=0,
                     ax=None, **kwargs):
    if ax is None:
        size = (np.array(data.shape[::-1]) + np.array([0, 1])) * np.array([col_width, row_height])
        fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=size)
        ax.axis('off')

    mpl_table = ax.table(cellText=data.values, bbox=bbox, colLabels=data.columns, **kwargs)

    mpl_table.auto_set_font_size(False)
    mpl_table.set_fontsize(font_size)

    for k, cell in  six.iteritems(mpl_table._cells):
        cell.set_edgecolor(edge_color)
        if k[0] == 0 or k[1] < header_columns:
            cell.set_text_props(weight='bold', color='w')
            cell.set_facecolor(header_color)
        else:
            cell.set_facecolor(row_colors[k[0]%len(row_colors) ])
    return ax

render_mpl_table(df, header_columns=0, col_width=2.0)