🔍 Need to explore large data files… but without firing up a Jupyter notebook or opening Excel?
Let me introduce a little-known but very powerful gem: #VisiData
🧰 What is it?
- VisiData is a command-line tool that lets you open, browse, filter, transform and analyze tabular data… directly from the terminal.
- Yes, like a Swiss Army knife for data in text mode. Lightweight, fast and powerful.
🚀 What can it do?
- Open CSVs with millions of rows in seconds
- Sort, filter and pivot data
- View multiple files at the same time
- Do quick calculations, groupings, summaries
- Export results to new files
- And all with keyboard shortcuts
💡 Who is it useful for?
- Data scientists who want a quick preview without loading pandas
- Analysts working over SSH or on remote servers
- Developers who review logs or raw data daily
- Anyone who wants to explore and understand their data… without heavy tools
⚙️ Supports many formats: CSV, JSON, Excel, SQLite, Parquet, and more.
🎁 And the best part: it’s open source and installs with a simple
pip install visidata 📊 In times when everything seems to require a notebook or a graphical interface, VisiData reminds us that sometimes the fastest and most effective thing happens in the terminal.
More information at the link 👇
Also published on LinkedIn.
