Horizontal Scrolling: A Huge No No
I would honestly have to say no. Usability expert Jakob Nielson would tell you the same. In his article Top 10 Web Design Mistakes of 2002, he plain out states that one should avoid horizontal scrolling on web pages at all costs. Today this is 10x less acceptable than it was 12 years ago, especially since websites have become far more responsive.
Read his article titled, Scrolling & Scrollbars (2005) for a more detailed look into scrolling, and why horizontal scrolling is a bad idea.
Crunching Some Numbers
If you'd like a more fresh take on scrolling, numbers, and percentages that people spend not scrolling horizontally take a look at Horizontal Attention Leans Left (2010).
Other Questions On This Site
I think you'd find this ux question very helpful!
Horizontal Scrolling vs Horizontal Swiping
Last but not least, horizontal scrolling may be a bad idea on laptop browsers, but according to research studies by Neilson, horizontal swiping on mobile devices should be fine. More info on that here.
Users have become more aware of horizontal swiping than they were in our previous research. The horizontal swipe gesture is often used to
"flip" through deck-of-cards or carousel features. Swiping is still
less discoverable than most other ways of manipulating mobile content,
so we recommend including a visible cue when people can swipe, or they
might never do so and thus miss most of your offerings. Also, you
should avoid swipe ambiguity: don't employ the same swipe gesture to
mean different things on different areas of the same screen. This
recommendation is the same for mobile phones and tablet usability,
showing the similarity between these two gesture-based platforms.
It's interesting to consider the difference between mouse-driven
desktop design and gesture-driven touchscreen design here. Desktop
websites have a strong guideline to avoid horizontal scrolling. But
for touch-screens, horizontal swipes are often fine. Indeed,
mobile-device users typically expect to horizontally swipe their way
through a carousel. Of course, this is just one more example of the
meta-guideline that sufficiently different platforms require different
user interface designs. This, again, is the underlying reason that
mobile sites perform better than full sites when used on a mobile
device.*
Where To Go From Here
I would defintiely take this as a way to think of more creative ways to display the information. Maybe even thinking of how this could work with vertical scrolling? I think you'd really enjoy this article on UX Myths, titled Myth #3 People Don't Scroll as it it very informative and helpful.
