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Visidata 2.9.1 Released– Excel/CSV/JSON/SQLite/Parquet in the Terminal (TUI/CLI)
- leonim 4y agoI'll say it again, Visidata is one my favorite new CLI/TUI tools over the last few years. It makes it extremely easy to explore/modify structured data in the terminal. In the 2.9.1 release, they added support for: - window functions listing values from around the current row. - XDG support for config files. - new loaders for Apache Arrow (IPC and streaming) and parquet formats - Ability to quickly browse zip files on the web. - And even some support for Windows users. Though I usually think of this as mostly a *nix terminal based tool. It can still load and view many different types of file formats like csv, usv, lsv, json, Excel. Check out the tutorial and youtube videos.
- leonim 4y agoHere are Saul Pwanson's YouTube videos showing off Visidata. Saul is the developer of Visidata: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxu7QdBkC7drrAGfYzatPGVHIpv4Et46W https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxu7QdBkC7drrAGfYzatP...
- somat 4y agoIt's weird but I think Visidata is the best spreadsheet software out there. "But", I hear you cry, "visidata is not a spreadsheet." I know, I know, that is what is weird about it.
- leonim 4y agoTo me it is amazing at exploring data. I wish we had that same interface on every place I'm looking at a table of data. I can't see it replacing Excel or other spreadsheets for people who make heavy use of spreadsheets in their jobs. For a terminal junkie like me, who wants/needs to make sense of data that is much bigger than my screen, Visidata is much better than a spreadsheet. I can filter and partition data easily. I used to have to use perl/awk/sed/sort/comm/grep to help me put that data in some format that was useful. Visidata is much easier and faster to use.