medialab/xan
The CSV magician observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
95/100
- Activity 95
- Release rhythm 92
- 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: 10
- age_days: 2976
- days_rel: 54
- days_push: 33
- n_releases_24m: 26
Adoption not part of the score
4484 stars · 89 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
xan is a fast, memory-efficient Rust command line tool for processing, transforming, and exploring CSV/TSV files directly from the shell. It offers composable commands, a tailored expression language, format conversion (JSON, Excel, numpy), and basic terminal data visualizations.
Use cases
- filter and slice large CSV files from the shell
- aggregate and sort CSV data without loading it into pandas
- convert CSV to JSON or Excel and back
- preview and explore CSV files in the terminal
- draw quick histograms and scatterplots from CSV data
- join multiple CSV files
- process web archival .cdx or bioinformatics .vcf/.gtf files
When to choose
- you need to wrangle gigabyte-sized CSV files quickly with low memory usage
- you prefer shell pipelines over writing Python scripts for tabular data
- you want fast CSV inspection and simple visualizations in the terminal
When to avoid
- you need complex statistical modeling or a full dataframe API
- your data is primarily nested JSON rather than tabular
- you need a GUI for data exploration
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
cli csv data-science parser data-visualization etl data-science developer-tools analytics cli windows rust cross-platform csv-manipulation tsv simd expression-language terminal-visualization xsv-fork command-line data-engineering linux macos
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/medialab/xan · fetched 2026-08-28 · e66775892ef5
- registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/xan · fetched 2026-08-29 · b5d647b23c3a
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| medialab/xan | main | 95 |
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