How to Share Beautiful Tables on your Medium Articles
Learn how to share interactive tables with your Medium readers using Airtable
I mostly write articles about Programming and Machine Learning and thus I usually (have to) share data tables. Until recently, I haven’t come up with a better approach than just writing the tables in markdown format.
| First Name | Last Name | Age |
| ----------- | --------- |-----|
| Andrew | Brown | 24 |
| Anna | Fox | 26 |
| Tony | Felix | 31 |
| Anthony | Anderson | 26 |
In today’s article we are going to explore how to share interactive data tables on Medium articles (or even elsewhere).
Introducing Airtable
Airtable is a spreadsheet app that allows users to store information in a beautiful and easy-to-use spreadsheets. Additionally, it can also be used as a database that companies can use as a CRM or even project planning.
In order to start using Airtable, you first have to sign up which is completely free of charge. Note however, that certain functionality requires users to upgrade to one of the paid plans.