Increasing Python table font in Jupyter

Question

Upon trying to increase the size of a Matplotlib table generated from a csv file, the following code will not work to enlarge the font of the table's text:

plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = (8,5.5)

How can I increase the size of the font in Jupyter?

If you want a more precise answer, you'll have to provide a little more code context. — ClaudiaR, Sep 17 '22 at 14:08
Please provide enough code so others can better understand or reproduce the problem. — Community, Sep 17 '22 at 19:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 17 '22 at 14:05

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Perhaps something like this?

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 
   
header = ["header" for i in range(5)] 
values = [["{}".format(c) for c in range(5)] for r in range(5)] 
   
fig, ax = plt.subplots() 
ax.set_axis_off() 
table = ax.table( 
    cellText = values,  
    rowLabels = header,  
    colLabels = header, 
    cellLoc ='center',  
    loc ='upper left')  

# this let you set the font
table.set_fontsize(15)  
# the table doesn't scale with the font, you'll have to enlarge it manually
table.scale(1.5, 1.5)     
   
ax.set_title('Example') 
   
plt.show()

answered Sep 17 '22 at 14:05

ClaudiaR

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the csv data has many rows and wide columns and even with table.set_fontsize, the table value font sizes seem to stay small. is there a way to fix that? – luxstack Sep 17 '22 at 14:21
Please provide an example of how you create the table – ClaudiaR Sep 17 '22 at 14:51
table = ax.table(cellText=df.values, colLabels=df.columns, loc='center') – luxstack Sep 17 '22 at 14:57
The font doesn’t change at all if you increment the value in `set_fontsize`? – ClaudiaR Sep 18 '22 at 06:44

Increasing Python table font in Jupyter

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