Is it best practice to place an editable data table in a modal/popup?

1. Are modals good for UX?
2. How to fit a wide data table on mobile screens without losing its purpose and readability?
3. What is the modal set of a data table?

Are modals good for UX?

All UX patterns have specialized case uses and functions, and UX modals are no different. In fact, they are the best functioning piece of UX pattern for announcing something important or making sure you have the full attention of a user/website visitor on a browser window.

How to fit a wide data table on mobile screens without losing its purpose and readability?

Use Smaller Type

Using smaller text should actually make tables more readable because it provides enough room for the content to fit well. Many try to get as much content into a table as possible, but if you use large text, you'll have to take that space from margins and padding, which would reduce readability.

What is the modal set of a data table?

When data is arranged in a frequency table, the mode is simply the value that has the highest frequency. Therefore, since the table shows that 29 students ate 5 times in the cafeteria, 5 is the mode of the data set.