# red-data-tools/YouPlot

A command line tool that draw plots on the terminal.

Repository: https://github.com/red-data-tools/YouPlot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/youplot
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: csv, cli, tui, ruby, tsv, visualization, terminal
Last push: 2026-06-22T13:15:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 78/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 88, release rhythm 53, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2227, "days_push": 72, "days_rel": 101, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4841, forks 71 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:01.261727+00:00)

## What it is
YouPlot is a command line tool that draws plots such as bar charts, histograms, line plots, scatter plots, and box plots directly in the terminal. It is written in Ruby, powered by UnicodePlot, and works well with Unix pipes on CSV/TSV data.

## Use cases
- plot csv data in the terminal
- draw a histogram from command line output
- visualize data piped from curl or awk
- quick line plot of time series in the shell
- make a bar chart from ls output
- terminal-based data visualization without a gui

## When to choose
- you want quick inline plots while working in a shell pipeline
- you work with CSV/TSV data and want zero-GUI visualization
- you want a lightweight tool installable via brew, gem, nix, or guix

## When to avoid
- you need interactive, high-resolution, or publication-quality graphics
- you need rich chart types beyond basic terminal plots
- you prefer not to depend on a Ruby runtime

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: data-visualization, cli, charts
- domain: data-visualization, developer-tools
- platform: cli, windows, cross-platform
- tags: terminal-plots, tui, csv, tsv, unicodeplot, unix-pipes, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- red-data-tools/YouPlot (main) score 78

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:01.261727+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:18:28.215973+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/red-data-tools/YouPlot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:01.261727+00:00, sha 7aa642346bfd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.