VisiData – open-source data multitool

visidata.org

69 points·sjellis··6 comments

Hey, VisiData author here! The website has been redesigned recently and hopefully looks a bit more modern. We're preparing to hold a workshop on VisiData at StrangeLoop, and a few other fun things are in the pipeline as well. I'm happy to answer any questions you have!

No questions, but a huge "thank you". I have not been this delighted with a tool since discovering Git. Once the little initial learning is done, it's so fast, powerful and easy to hand that it already feels like an indispensible part of my toolkit, after just a few days.

You're so welcome, and thank you! I love to hear that someone has been delighted by this seemingly innocuous data tool. We're working on improving the initial learning process, so if you'd be willing to share some of your difficulties and initial stumbling blocks, please reach out, I'd love to talk with you.

This is a life saver tool to quickly examine tabular data in the terminal. Use it multiple times daily!

This looks really interesting. I use csvkit all the time. Curious how they compare. Will ply around with it.

By analogy csvkit is to visdata as sed is to vim.

Visdata is an interactive tool and you can quickly explore/edit data directly. While csvkit is batch oriented. Visidata can be used in a batch way, but that is not its strength.

I prefer to use a similar tool mlr. I find mlr is complementary to Visdata. Either to process the data before going into Visdata, or to figure out what mlr commands I want to use for a shell script.

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