This will be the most hideous comment I've ever made on the internet.

I would die for something like this to be an emacs package, to be written in elisp. I do all my development and data processing in emacs on remote clusters and it is insanely efficient and quick to iterate. The only thing that slows me down is getting and making plots. I can, of course, but I still mount the drive and transfer plots as compressed images. Which is horrifically inefficient for doing very quick rapid iterations on the processing of data....

Of course, the effort to duplicate the functionality of this in elisp that properly displays in the emacs TUI would be herculean. But there's no way I can install ruby on my remote clusters :(