Creating a text table (crosstab)
A text table is also often referred to as a crosstab, a shortened term for cross tabulation. Another common term that can be used to describe text tables is a spreadsheet. A text table is a series of rows and columns that have headers and numeric values. Text tables are great when the audience requires to see the individual values. A limitation of text tables is that it requires attentive processing—whoever is using the text table needs to focus on reading and comparing the numbers because any patterns or insights are not very easy to spot.
In this recipe, we will create a text table that shows the top 20 movies from 2007-2011, based on the worldwide gross amount.
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