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Visidata 2.9.1 Released– Excel/CSV/JSON/SQLite/Parquet in the Terminal (TUI/CLI)

by leonim on 8/12/22, 6:07 PM with 4 comments

  • by somat on 8/12/22, 7:14 PM

    It'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.
  • by leonim on 8/12/22, 6:07 PM

    I'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.