saulpw/visidata
A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
85/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 59
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 244
- age_days: 3597
- days_rel: 63
- days_push: 11
- n_releases_24m: 4
Adoption not part of the score
9252 stars · 359 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
VisiData is a terminal-based interactive spreadsheet multitool for exploring, cleaning, and arranging tabular data. It supports many formats (CSV, TSV, JSON, Excel, SQLite, HDF5, and more) and combines spreadsheet-like navigation with Python extensibility.
Use cases
- explore a large csv file in the terminal
- convert json to tsv from the command line
- clean up messy spreadsheet data quickly
- compute frequency tables and pivot tables on a dataset
- view and edit a sqlite database table interactively
- quickly inspect an excel or hdf5 file without opening a gui
- run ad hoc batch data pipelines with replayable command logs
When to choose
- you need to quickly explore, filter, sort, or pivot tabular data with millions of rows
- you prefer keyboard-driven terminal tools over GUI spreadsheet applications
- you want to convert between data formats (csv, json, sqlite, xlsx, etc.) without writing scripts
- you want lightweight, scriptable data wrangling with Python extensibility
When to avoid
- you need collaborative or graphical spreadsheet editing like Excel or Google Sheets
- you require a full GUI with mouse-first workflows (though basic mouse support exists)
- you need heavy statistical or machine-learning analysis better suited to pandas or R notebooks
Facets
cli-tool · maturity stable
data-science cli terminal-ui data-visualization developer-tools data-science developer-tools analytics files python cli windows cross-platform spreadsheet tui tabular-data csv data-wrangling exploratory-data-analysis data-journalism pandas sqlite excel command-line linux macos
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata · fetched 2026-08-28 · 4a6cf5990883
- homepage: http://visidata.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2270b08fc95d
- site_page: https://www.visidata.org/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · e6daf892a2f7
- site_page: https://www.visidata.org/install · fetched 2026-08-29 · d2fd3b0db04d
- site_page: https://www.visidata.org/docs/graph · fetched 2026-08-29 · 453ad3fa1d0a
- site_page: https://www.visidata.org/docs/save-restore · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4867ac702a7e
- site_page: https://www.visidata.org/blog/2024/help-with-docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9a7fe202c4f0
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/visidata/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · eeb9e77e3374
- site_page: https://www.visidata.org/releases · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3aa642ef8416
- site_page: https://www.visidata.org/pricing · fetched 2026-08-29 · 95a495a767e9
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| saulpw/visidata | main | 85 |
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