Perhaps a picture can be exchanged for a mere thousand words, but a good interactive visualization can transcend the error-fraught struggle that is a user’s navigation of a numerical table. Arrays of numbers are an unrivaled source for feeding software and the easiest means to archive quantified information, but dumping them essentially naked onto the lap of a user in the form of a block of numbers, no matter how nicely formatted that block, is, quite frankly, bordering on cruel.

In this post I demonstrate how a tiny amount of customization of a widely-available JavaScript library’s *usage example* can turn the ubiquitous standard presentation of real estate appraisals from a tedious chore to analyze to something that (at least initially, for me) borders on *fun* while preventing many oversights and common errors.

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