An open-source multitool for exploring data in the terminal. Like vim for tabular data. Support VisiData on Patreon: patreon.com/saulpw

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New feature on develop! VisiData can now persist a history of your prompt responses between sessions: visidata.org/blog/2021/input…
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Jeremy Singer-Vine just published an update to his wonderful VisiData tutorial. It now covers v2.0! jsvine.github.io/intro-to-vi…
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VisiData 2.0 is really coming along. We added @jsvine's `unfurl-col` command, which is like an instant self-join with a column of list or dict. Very useful for nested data in e.g. JSON, and a nice row-wise complement to `expand-col`. Unbound for now; maybe zM as a focused melt?
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For reference, here is what the column-wise `expand-col` looks like.
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Ever wonder what happens when you open multiple datasets in VisiData simultaneously? Or why sometimes the Sheets Sheet tells you that a sheet has 0 rows and 1 column? @saulfp answers these questions in a post on sheet loading: visidata.org/blog/2020/unloa…
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Last year, @saulfp posted a series of case study videos on fun ways he has used VisiData in the wild. The first one has been updated into a blog post: on summing a paragraph of donation data with VisiData. visidata.org/blog/2020/case-…
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Replying to @aborruso
It scrolls along! 🥰
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