diff --git a/spark/pom.xml b/spark/pom.xml
index 0475515305e..71fb8a69550 100644
--- a/spark/pom.xml
+++ b/spark/pom.xml
@@ -367,6 +367,14 @@
       <version>1.1</version>
     </dependency>
 
+    <!--TEST-->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.scalatest</groupId>
+      <artifactId>scalatest_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <version>2.2.4</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
@@ -760,6 +768,34 @@
         </executions>
       </plugin>
 
+      <!-- Plugin to compile Scala code -->
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.scala-tools</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-scala-plugin</artifactId>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>compile</id>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>compile</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <phase>compile</phase>
+          </execution>
+          <execution>
+            <id>test-compile</id>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>testCompile</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <phase>test-compile</phase>
+          </execution>
+          <execution>
+            <phase>process-resources</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>compile</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+
     </plugins>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/zeppelin/spark/SparkInterpreter.java b/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/zeppelin/spark/SparkInterpreter.java
index 935b2a59c19..1c4c5e7c9cd 100644
--- a/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/zeppelin/spark/SparkInterpreter.java
+++ b/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/zeppelin/spark/SparkInterpreter.java
@@ -461,6 +461,14 @@ public void open() {
       intp.interpret("import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._");
     }
 
+    // Utility functions for display
+    intp.interpret("import org.apache.zeppelin.spark.utils.DisplayUtils._");
+
+    // Scala implicit value for spark.maxResult
+    intp.interpret("import org.apache.zeppelin.spark.utils.SparkMaxResult");
+    intp.interpret("implicit val sparkMaxResult = new SparkMaxResult(" +
+            Integer.parseInt(getProperty("zeppelin.spark.maxResult")) + ")");
+
     // add jar
     if (depInterpreter != null) {
       DependencyContext depc = depInterpreter.getDependencyContext();
diff --git a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/zeppelin/spark/utils/DisplayUtils.scala b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/zeppelin/spark/utils/DisplayUtils.scala
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..81814349c18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/zeppelin/spark/utils/DisplayUtils.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.zeppelin.spark.utils
+
+import java.lang.StringBuilder
+
+import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
+
+import scala.collection.IterableLike
+
+object DisplayUtils {
+
+  implicit def toDisplayRDDFunctions[T <: Product](rdd: RDD[T]): DisplayRDDFunctions[T] = new DisplayRDDFunctions[T](rdd)
+
+  implicit def toDisplayTraversableFunctions[T <: Product](traversable: Traversable[T]): DisplayTraversableFunctions[T] = new DisplayTraversableFunctions[T](traversable)
+
+  def html(htmlContent: String = "") = s"%html $htmlContent"
+
+  def img64(base64Content: String = "") = s"%img $base64Content"
+
+  def img(url: String) = s"<img src='$url' />"
+}
+
+trait DisplayCollection[T <: Product] {
+
+  def printFormattedData(traversable: Traversable[T], columnLabels: String*): Unit = {
+    val providedLabelCount: Int = columnLabels.size
+    var maxColumnCount:Int = 1
+    val headers = new StringBuilder("%table ")
+
+    val data = new StringBuilder("")
+
+    traversable.foreach(tuple => {
+      maxColumnCount = math.max(maxColumnCount,tuple.productArity)
+      data.append(tuple.productIterator.mkString("\t")).append("\n")
+    })
+
+    if (providedLabelCount > maxColumnCount) {
+      headers.append(columnLabels.take(maxColumnCount).mkString("\t")).append("\n")
+    } else if (providedLabelCount < maxColumnCount) {
+      val missingColumnHeaders = ((providedLabelCount+1) to maxColumnCount).foldLeft[String](""){
+        (stringAccumulator,index) =>  if (index==1) s"Column$index" else s"$stringAccumulator\tColumn$index"
+      }
+
+      headers.append(columnLabels.mkString("\t")).append(missingColumnHeaders).append("\n")
+    } else {
+      headers.append(columnLabels.mkString("\t")).append("\n")
+    }
+
+    headers.append(data)
+
+    print(headers.toString)
+  }
+
+}
+
+class DisplayRDDFunctions[T <: Product] (val rdd: RDD[T]) extends DisplayCollection[T] {
+
+  def display(columnLabels: String*)(implicit sparkMaxResult: SparkMaxResult): Unit = {
+    printFormattedData(rdd.take(sparkMaxResult.maxResult), columnLabels: _*)
+  }
+
+  def display(sparkMaxResult:Int, columnLabels: String*): Unit = {
+    printFormattedData(rdd.take(sparkMaxResult), columnLabels: _*)
+  }
+}
+
+class DisplayTraversableFunctions[T <: Product] (val traversable: Traversable[T]) extends DisplayCollection[T] {
+
+  def display(columnLabels: String*): Unit = {
+    printFormattedData(traversable, columnLabels: _*)
+  }
+}
+
+class SparkMaxResult(val maxResult: Int) extends Serializable
diff --git a/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/zeppelin/spark/utils/DisplayFunctionsTest.scala b/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/zeppelin/spark/utils/DisplayFunctionsTest.scala
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2638f1710e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/zeppelin/spark/utils/DisplayFunctionsTest.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.zeppelin.spark.utils
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream
+
+import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
+import org.apache.spark.{SparkContext, SparkConf}
+import org.scalatest._
+import org.scalatest.{BeforeAndAfter}
+
+case class Person(login : String, name: String, age: Int)
+
+class DisplayFunctionsTest extends FlatSpec with BeforeAndAfter with BeforeAndAfterEach with Matchers {
+  var sc: SparkContext = null
+  var testTuples:List[(String, String, Int)] = null
+  var testPersons:List[Person] = null
+  var testRDDTuples: RDD[(String,String,Int)]  = null
+  var testRDDPersons: RDD[Person]  = null
+  var stream: ByteArrayOutputStream = null
+  
+  before {
+    val sparkConf: SparkConf = new SparkConf(true)
+      .setAppName("test-DisplayFunctions")
+      .setMaster("local")
+    sc = new SparkContext(sparkConf)
+    testTuples = List(("jdoe", "John DOE", 32), ("hsue", "Helen SUE", 27), ("rsmith", "Richard SMITH", 45))
+    testRDDTuples = sc.parallelize(testTuples)
+    testPersons = List(Person("jdoe", "John DOE", 32), Person("hsue", "Helen SUE", 27), Person("rsmith", "Richard SMITH", 45))
+    testRDDPersons = sc.parallelize(testPersons)
+  }
+
+  override def beforeEach() {
+    stream = new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream()
+    super.beforeEach() // To be stackable, must call super.beforeEach
+  }
+
+
+  "DisplayFunctions" should "generate correct column headers for tuples" in {
+    implicit val sparkMaxResult = new SparkMaxResult(100)
+    Console.withOut(stream) {
+      new DisplayRDDFunctions[(String,String,Int)](testRDDTuples).display("Login","Name","Age")
+    }
+
+    stream.toString("UTF-8") should be("%table Login\tName\tAge\n" +
+      "jdoe\tJohn DOE\t32\n" +
+      "hsue\tHelen SUE\t27\n" +
+      "rsmith\tRichard SMITH\t45\n")
+  }
+
+  "DisplayFunctions" should "generate correct column headers for case class" in {
+    implicit val sparkMaxResult = new SparkMaxResult(100)
+    Console.withOut(stream) {
+      new DisplayRDDFunctions[Person](testRDDPersons).display("Login","Name","Age")
+    }
+
+    stream.toString("UTF-8") should be("%table Login\tName\tAge\n" +
+      "jdoe\tJohn DOE\t32\n" +
+      "hsue\tHelen SUE\t27\n" +
+      "rsmith\tRichard SMITH\t45\n")
+  }
+
+  "DisplayFunctions" should "truncate exceeding column headers for tuples" in {
+    implicit val sparkMaxResult = new SparkMaxResult(100)
+    Console.withOut(stream) {
+      new DisplayRDDFunctions[(String,String,Int)](testRDDTuples).display("Login","Name","Age","xxx","yyy")
+    }
+
+    stream.toString("UTF-8") should be("%table Login\tName\tAge\n" +
+      "jdoe\tJohn DOE\t32\n" +
+      "hsue\tHelen SUE\t27\n" +
+      "rsmith\tRichard SMITH\t45\n")
+  }
+
+  "DisplayFunctions" should "pad missing column headers with ColumnXXX for tuples" in {
+    implicit val sparkMaxResult = new SparkMaxResult(100)
+    Console.withOut(stream) {
+      new DisplayRDDFunctions[(String,String,Int)](testRDDTuples).display("Login")
+    }
+
+    stream.toString("UTF-8") should be("%table Login\tColumn2\tColumn3\n" +
+      "jdoe\tJohn DOE\t32\n" +
+      "hsue\tHelen SUE\t27\n" +
+      "rsmith\tRichard SMITH\t45\n")
+  }
+
+  "DisplayUtils" should "restricts RDD to sparkMaxresult with implicit limit" in {
+
+    implicit val sparkMaxResult = new SparkMaxResult(2)
+
+    Console.withOut(stream) {
+      new DisplayRDDFunctions[(String,String,Int)](testRDDTuples).display("Login")
+    }
+
+    stream.toString("UTF-8") should be("%table Login\tColumn2\tColumn3\n" +
+      "jdoe\tJohn DOE\t32\n" +
+      "hsue\tHelen SUE\t27\n")
+  }
+
+  "DisplayUtils" should "restricts RDD to sparkMaxresult with explicit limit" in {
+
+    implicit val sparkMaxResult = new SparkMaxResult(2)
+
+    Console.withOut(stream) {
+      new DisplayRDDFunctions[(String,String,Int)](testRDDTuples).display(1,"Login")
+    }
+
+    stream.toString("UTF-8") should be("%table Login\tColumn2\tColumn3\n" +
+      "jdoe\tJohn DOE\t32\n")
+  }
+
+  "DisplayFunctions" should "display traversable of tuples" in {
+
+    Console.withOut(stream) {
+      new DisplayTraversableFunctions[(String,String,Int)](testTuples).display("Login","Name","Age")
+    }
+
+    stream.toString("UTF-8") should be("%table Login\tName\tAge\n" +
+      "jdoe\tJohn DOE\t32\n" +
+      "hsue\tHelen SUE\t27\n" +
+      "rsmith\tRichard SMITH\t45\n")
+  }
+
+  "DisplayFunctions" should "display traversable of case class" in {
+
+    Console.withOut(stream) {
+      new DisplayTraversableFunctions[Person](testPersons).display("Login","Name","Age")
+    }
+
+    stream.toString("UTF-8") should be("%table Login\tName\tAge\n" +
+      "jdoe\tJohn DOE\t32\n" +
+      "hsue\tHelen SUE\t27\n" +
+      "rsmith\tRichard SMITH\t45\n")
+  }
+
+  "DisplayUtils" should "display HTML" in {
+    DisplayUtils.html() should be ("%html ")
+    DisplayUtils.html("test") should be ("%html test")
+  }
+
+  "DisplayUtils" should "display img" in {
+    DisplayUtils.img("http://www.google.com") should be ("<img src='http://www.google.com' />")
+    DisplayUtils.img64() should be ("%img ")
+    DisplayUtils.img64("abcde") should be ("%img abcde")
+  }
+
+  override def afterEach() {
+    try super.afterEach() // To be stackable, must call super.afterEach
+    stream = null
+  }
+
+  after {
+    sc.stop()
+  }
+
+
+}
+
+
diff --git a/zeppelin-interpreter/pom.xml b/zeppelin-interpreter/pom.xml
index 980fe4ac568..c2a67524a95 100644
--- a/zeppelin-interpreter/pom.xml
+++ b/zeppelin-interpreter/pom.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
   <url>http://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org</url>
 
   <dependencies>
+
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.thrift</groupId>
       <artifactId>libthrift</artifactId>