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wireservice/agate

A Python data analysis library that is optimized for humans instead of machines. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/wireservice/agate · homepage · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

75/100

  • Activity 94
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4513
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 41
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1198 stars · 164 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

agate is a Python data analysis library optimized for humans instead of machines, offering a readable alternative to numpy and pandas. It provides table-based data manipulation, aggregation, and computation for real-world analysis problems.

Use cases

  • analyze csv data with readable python code
  • compute aggregates and statistics over tabular data
  • filter and sort datasets without pandas complexity
  • clean and transform messy real-world data
  • generate summary tables for journalism or reporting
  • replace pandas for simpler human-friendly workflows

When to choose

  • you want readable, human-friendly data analysis code
  • your datasets are small to medium sized tabular data
  • you find pandas' API too complex for simple analysis tasks
  • you work in journalism or reporting with csv/spreadsheet data

When to avoid

  • you need high performance on very large datasets
  • you rely on pandas' extensive ecosystem or numpy interop
  • you need advanced time-series or machine-learning features

Facets

library · maturity stable

data-science etl data-science analytics python cross-platform data-analysis tables csv readable-code pandas-alternative

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Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
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