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VisiData Lightning Demo at PyCascades 2018

Saul Pwanson · 40.9K views · 2018-01-25 · 4:51

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Overview

A five-minute lightning demo of VisiData, a terminal tool for exploring and manipulating data. It uses two months of NYC 311 complaint data to drill down, plot points on a virtual map and save selected rows.

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HN recommends it as the fastest way to understand what VisiData can do, since seeing it work is clearer than reading about it.

Recommended by 6 HN people across 6 months · HN mentions 2018–2025

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Data science & statisticsTesting, debugging & developer toolsPython, Ruby & scripting languages
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nowahe · 2022-12 · Strong recommendation

Highly recommend this as well, it has been a godsend for me for digging into multi-GB Cloudfront log files and extracting stats and patterns. There is a good (albeit a bit old now, as the interface has been overhauled since) quick demo video from VD's creator : [VIDEO]

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mxuribe · 2021-08 · Strong recommendation

visdata is pretty mind-blowing...at least, that's how i felt when i saw the demo the first time: [VIDEO]

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leonim · 2021-07 · Recommendation

If you aren't familiar with Visidata, this video gives a pretty good idea of what it can do: [VIDEO] It seems like making a living on shell tools can be difficult to impossible. The author Saul is using Patreon to help fund his work on this tool. I love this tool, and hope others can help support him too. Maybe this "duo-repo" approach will allow him to do this full time.

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