How do I display large tables in HTML?
tl;dr - To speed up loading a large HTML table on the client, start with the table CSS set to display: none; . Once the document is ready, set it back to display: table; . This reduced my client-side render time from 60 seconds to 6 seconds on a table with ~400,000 cells.
Why do we need tables for big data?
They can be used to highlight trends or patterns in the data and to make a manuscript more readable by removing numeric data from the text. Tables can also be used to synthesize existing literature, explain variables, or present the wording of survey questions.