Strategy to display very wide table [closed]

Question

I have a table that has 23 columns of data in it that I need to display. It's obviously unreasonably wide, and I am looking for a strategy to make it a little bit more manageable for my users.

Answer 1

That sounds like it would be better off just making the data available as CSV so that users can download it and read it in their favorite spreadsheet program. I know from experience that nothing made our users⁽¹⁾ happier (with one notable exception) than when we added this option in, and it's really quite easy to do. (Yeah, putting everything in a slick web interface is a nice goal, but sometimes you get better results by not working nearly so hard.)

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^{(1) Our users are scientists. Physicists, in particular, but I'm told that biologists are the same. Your users might be different; check!}