VisiData - Open-source data multitool

Oct 19, 2022 · 1 min read · csv data management viewer tui ·

VisiData is a free, open-source tool that lets you quickly open, explore, summarize, and analyze datasets in your computer's terminal.

VisiData is the most advanced and feature-complete visualizer for tabular data, with several functions similar to a spreadsheet. There is a huge list of available keybindings that allows different views and manipulations of the content by row, columns or cells. Data can be sorted, filtered and summaries can be generated for single columns.

VisiData can open may types of tabular files, including comma/tab separated (CSV/TSV), fixed width files, Excel files, databases such as SQLite, Postgres and MySQL.

Moreover, it can generate several types of graphs. Watch the following video to get an overview of the features of VisiData when it comes to graphically represent the data.

References

Author: Saul Pwanson
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Programming language: Python
Homepage: https://www.visidata.org/
Source code: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata