https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43494894 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43494894 discusses xan https://github.com/medialab/xan https://github.com/med

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43494894 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43494894 discusses xan https://github.com/medialab/xan https://github.com/medialab/xan readme says this tool is originally a fork of BurntSushi's xsv, but has been nearly entirely rewritten at that point, to fit SciencesPo's médialab use-cases, rooted in web data collection and analysis geared towards social sciences (you might think CSV is outdated by now, but read our love letter to the format before judging too quickly). xan therefore goes beyond typical data manipulation and expose utilities related to lexicometry, graph theory and even scraping.