[Tex/LaTex] Table and figure side by side with minipages

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How do I put a table and a figure side by side with minipage?
I have made it work, but then the figure's caption is table, because table was the surrounding tag.

\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\linewidth}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ | l | r | r | r |}
    \hline
    Student & Hours/week & Grade \\ \hline \hline   
    Ada Lovelace & 2 & A \\ \hline
    Linus Thorvalds & 8 & A \\ \hline
    Bruce Willis & 12 & F \\ \hline
    Richard Stallman & 10 & B \\ \hline
    Grace Hopper & 12 & A \\ \hline
    Alan Turing & 8 & C \\ \hline
    Bill Gates & 6 & D \\ \hline
    Steve Jobs & 4 & E \\ \hline
   \end{tabular}
    \caption{Student Database}
    \label{table:student}
\end{minipage}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}[ht]
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\linewidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=40mm]{figures/studentdatabasegraph.png}
\caption{2-D scatterplot of the Student Database}
\label{ }
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}

Best Answer

Table and figure caption can be put in the same floating environment, but there is a big but: LaTeX places figures and tables independently and does not synchronize the numbering of the figure caption in the table float with the other figures. Therefore, the numbering of the figures can be out of order.

Example file:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{capt-of}% or \usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.56\linewidth}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ | l | r | r | r |}
    \hline
    Student & Hours/week & Grade \\ \hline \hline
    Ada Lovelace & 2 & A \\ \hline
    Linus Thorvalds & 8 & A \\ \hline
    Bruce Willis & 12 & F \\ \hline
    Richard Stallman & 10 & B \\ \hline
    Grace Hopper & 12 & A \\ \hline
    Alan Turing & 8 & C \\ \hline
    Bill Gates & 6 & D \\ \hline
    Steve Jobs & 4 & E \\ \hline
   \end{tabular}
    \caption{Student Database}
    \label{table:student}
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.4\linewidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=40mm]{example-image}
\captionof{figure}{2-D scatterplot of the Student Database}
\label{fig:image}
\end{minipage}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Nicer table

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{capt-of}% or \usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{varwidth}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[ht]
  \begin{varwidth}[b]{0.6\linewidth}
    \centering
    \begin{tabular}{ l r r r }
      \toprule
      Student & Hours/week & Grade \\
      \midrule
      Ada Lovelace & 2 & A \\
      Linus Thorvalds & 8 & A \\
      Bruce Willis & 12 & F \\
      Richard Stallman & 10 & B \\
      Grace Hopper & 12 & A \\
      Alan Turing & 8 & C \\
      Bill Gates & 6 & D \\
      Steve Jobs & 4 & E \\
      \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
    \caption{Student Database}
    \label{table:student}
  \end{varwidth}%
  \hfill
  \begin{minipage}[b]{0.4\linewidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=40mm]{example-image}
    \captionof{figure}{2-D scatterplot of the Student Database}
    \label{fig:image}
  \end{minipage}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Different alignment

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{capt-of}% or \usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\newsavebox\tmpbox

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[ht]
  \sbox\tmpbox{%
    \begin{tabular}[b]{ l r r r }
      \toprule
      Student & Hours/week & Grade \\
      \midrule
      Ada Lovelace & 2 & A \\
      Linus Thorvalds & 8 & A \\
      Bruce Willis & 12 & F \\
      Richard Stallman & 10 & B \\
      Grace Hopper & 12 & A \\
      Alan Turing & 8 & C \\
      Bill Gates & 6 & D \\
      Steve Jobs & 4 & E \\
      \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}%
  }%
  \renewcommand*{\arraystretch}{0}
  \begin{tabular*}{\linewidth}{@{\extracolsep\fill}p{\wd\tmpbox}p{40mm}@{}}
    \usebox\tmpbox &
    \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image} \\
    \caption{Student Database}
    \label{table:student}
    &
    \captionof{figure}{2-D scatterplot of the Student Database}
    \label{fig:image}
  \end{tabular*}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] How to put two tables in a table* element so that the tables appear side by side in a two column layout scientific paper

You should use the subfig package.

\begin{table*}
\subfloat[First caption]{\begin{tabular}{...}...\end{tabular}}
\subfloat[Second caption]{\begin{tabular}{...}...\end{tabular}}
\caption{Overall caption}
\end{table*}

This can be used in conjunction with the floatrow package. See the subfig documentation for an example that aligns captions using floatrow.

EDIT:
Your example has an extra \begin{table} that doesn't belong. It also has a blank line which causes TeX to start a new paragraph which is why one table appears on top of the other.

Here's a complete example where I've also cleaned up your tables following the guidelines given in the documentation to the booktabs package.

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}
\begin{table*}
\subfloat[Before processing]{
\begin{tabular}{ccccc}
\toprule
Year & Month & Country & State & Impressions\\
\midrule
2007 & JAN & IN & TN & 3\\
2007 & JAN & IN & TN & 1\\
\bottomrule 
\end{tabular}
}%
\hfill
\subfloat[After processing]{
\begin{tabular}{ccccc}
\toprule 
Year & Month & Country & State & Impressions\\
\midrule 
2007 & JAN & IN & TN & 7\\
2007 & FEB & IN & KA & 13\\
\bottomrule 
\end{tabular}
}
\caption{overall}
\end{table*}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] side by side minipages with keepaspectratio=true

Change lines after \includegraphics and avoid superfluous blank spaces; you can measure the width of the image(s) and use this width for the minipages to get the proper alignment for the text:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage[top=1in,bottom=1in,left=0.5in,textwidth=7.5in]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newlength\imageheight
\newlength\imagewidth

\settowidth\imagewidth{\includegraphics[width=\linewidth, height=.25\textheight, keepaspectratio=true]{elephant}}

\setlength{\fboxsep}{0pt}
\begin{document}

\begin{center} 
\colorbox{blue}{\parbox[t][0.5cm][c]{\textwidth}{\bfseries{HEADER}}}
\end{center} 

\lipsum[2]

\noindent\begin{minipage}[b]{\imagewidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth, height=.25\textheight, keepaspectratio=true]{elephant}\\
Some text.
\end{minipage}%
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[b]{\imagewidth}
\hfill
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth, height=.25\textheight, keepaspectratio=true]{elephant}\\
\hfill Some more text.
\end{minipage}

\vspace{1ex}

\noindent\begin{minipage}[b]{\imagewidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth, height=.25\textheight, keepaspectratio=true]{elephant}\\
Some text.
\end{minipage}%
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[b]{\imagewidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth, height=.25\textheight, keepaspectratio=true]{elephant}\\
Some more text.
\end{minipage}

\vspace{1ex}

\noindent\begin{minipage}[b]{\imagewidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth, height=.25\textheight, keepaspectratio=true]{elephant}\\
Some text.
\end{minipage}%
\hfill%
\begin{minipage}[b]{\imagewidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth, height=.25\textheight, keepaspectratio=true]{elephant}
Some more text.
\end{minipage}

\end{document}

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