What is Table (information)?
[[File:Reddatabooktable.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Text table: Red Book of endangered [[species]]]] [[File:Aantal waarheidstabellen.png|thumb|right|200px|Truth tables ([[logic]])]] A '''table''' of information is a set of [[fact]]s arranged in [[row]]s and [[column]]s.<ref>''Concise Oxford Dictionary''</ref> It is a way of displaying [[information]]. It requires a [[Media|medium]], such as [[writing]] or [[print]] on [[paper]], or a [[computer monitor]]. It is both a mode of [[visual]] [[communication]] and also a way to set out [[Information|data]]. A table consists of an orderly arrangement of rows and columns. The columns and rows usually have names or [[label]]s. Tables may include notes, headers, footers or other features. Like other [[graphic]] forms such as [[diagram]]s and [[illustration]]s, tables are often used together with [[prose]]. In books and articles, tables are often given numbers and captions. Tables were the first way to print [[social]] and [[scientific]] data, before any other kind of [[graphics]] like [[graph]]s and [[chart]]s. All the information about a modern society was recorded and published first as tables. [[Marriage]] certificates were written tables. [[Census]] results were recorded as tables, and later analysed in printed tables.<ref>The taking of censuses is ancient (St. Luke, chapter 2), but the publication of statistical analysis in tables is modern.</ref> All weather observations were published as printed numerical tables. Many kinds of reports to [[Parliament]] contained tables of data. Many of these methods were invented in [[Britain]], because the government collected statistics about the population, and then published the results.<ref>Nissel M. 1987. ''People count: a history of the General Register Office''. HMSO, London.</ref> The use of tables is widespread in all types of [[communication]], [[research]] and data [[analysis]]. Tables appear in print media, handwritten notes, computer software, architectural ornamentation, traffic signs and many other places. The detail