I have ended up writing a function that can do this:
[update: added titles based on suggestions (thnx @Antony_Hatchkins et al.)]
from IPython.display import display_html
from itertools import chain,cycle
def display_side_by_side(*args,titles=cycle([''])):
html_str=""
for df,title in zip(args, chain(titles,cycle(['</br>'])) ):
html_str+='<th style="text-align:center"><td style="vertical-align:top">'
html_str+=f'<h2 style="text-align: center;">{title}</h2>'
html_str+=df.to_html().replace('table','table style="display:inline"')
html_str+='</td></th>'
display_html(html_str,raw=True)
Example usage:
df1 = pd.DataFrame(np.arange(12).reshape((3,4)),columns=['A','B','C','D',])
df2 = pd.DataFrame(np.arange(16).reshape((4,4)),columns=['A','B','C','D',])
display_side_by_side(df1,df2,df1, titles=['Foo','Foo Bar']) #we left 3rd empty...
