diff --git a/docs/using/selecting.md b/docs/using/selecting.md
index 92b0e895..b1c6a5a7 100644
--- a/docs/using/selecting.md
+++ b/docs/using/selecting.md
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ packages from [conda-forge](https://conda-forge.github.io/feedstocks)
 [statsmodel](http://www.statsmodels.org/stable/index.html), [cloudpickle](https://github.com/cloudpipe/cloudpickle), [dill](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dill),
 [numba](https://numba.pydata.org/), [bokeh](https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/), [sqlalchemy](https://www.sqlalchemy.org/), [hdf5](http://www.h5py.org/),
 [vincent](http://vincent.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), [beautifulsoup](https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/),
-[protobuf](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/pythontutorial), and [xlrd](http://www.python-excel.org/) packages
+[protobuf](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/pythontutorial), [xlrd](http://www.python-excel.org/), [bottleneck](https://bottleneck.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), and [pytables](https://www.pytables.org/) packages
 * [ipywidgets](https://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) and [ipympl](https://github.com/matplotlib/jupyter-matplotlib) for interactive visualizations and plots in Python notebooks
 * [Facets](https://github.com/PAIR-code/facets) for visualizing machine learning datasets
 
diff --git a/scipy-notebook/Dockerfile b/scipy-notebook/Dockerfile
index a6f11615..43db6b63 100644
--- a/scipy-notebook/Dockerfile
+++ b/scipy-notebook/Dockerfile
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ RUN conda install --quiet --yes \
     'beautifulsoup4=4.8.*' \
     'conda-forge::blas=*=openblas' \
     'bokeh=2.0.*' \
+    'bottleneck=1.3.*' \
     'cloudpickle=1.3.*' \
     'cython=0.29.*' \
     'dask=2.14.*' \
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ RUN conda install --quiet --yes \
     'pandas=1.0.*' \
     'patsy=0.5.*' \
     'protobuf=3.11.*' \
+    'pytables=3.6.*' \
     'scikit-image=0.16.*' \
     'scikit-learn=0.22.*' \
     'scipy=1.4.*' \
diff --git a/test/test_packages.py b/test/test_packages.py
index 50532e10..5da346ce 100644
--- a/test/test_packages.py
+++ b/test/test_packages.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Example:
     $ make test/datascience-notebook
 
     # [...]
-    # test/test_packages.py::test_python_packages 
+    # test/test_packages.py::test_python_packages
     # --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- live log setup ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # 2020-03-08 09:56:04 [    INFO] Starting container jupyter/datascience-notebook ... (helpers.py:51)
     # 2020-03-08 09:56:04 [    INFO] Running jupyter/datascience-notebook with args {'detach': True, 'ports': {'8888/tcp': 8888}, 'tty': True, 'command': ['start.sh', 'bash', '-c', 'sleep infinity']} ... (conftest.py:78)
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ PACKAGE_MAPPING = {
     "scikit-learn": "sklearn",
     "scikit-image": "skimage",
     "spylon-kernel": "spylon_kernel",
+    "pytables": "tables",
     # R
     "randomforest": "randomForest",
     "rsqlite": "DBI",