VisiData Blog

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Official VisiData project articles on its command-line data-exploration tool, documentation, releases, data puzzles, and open-source development.

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Using AI to Contribute to Open Source #OpenSource #AI #Development
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Mar 21, 2026
Help improve VisiData documentation! #OpenSource #Documentation #Community
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Feb 12, 2024
Introducing Guides #DataAnalysis #OpenSource #Commandline
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Jan 19, 2024
Hanukkah of Data Wrap-up #DataScience #OpenSource #Community
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Dec 27, 2022
Hanukkah of Data #DataScience #OpenSource #Tooling
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Nov 30, 2022
Connect VisiData to SQL Databases with vdsql #DataAnalysis #OpenSource #SQL
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Oct 14, 2022
Estimates of current and future usage #DataViz #OpenSource #Commandline
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Oct 29, 2021
Ways you can contribute to VisiData #OpenSource #Community #Dev
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Oct 29, 2021
VisiData Turns 5 #OpenSource #DataViz #Commandline
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Oct 29, 2021
VisiData.org Redesign #OpenSource #DataViz #CommandLine
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Aug 13, 2021
10 Ways to Use VisiData #DataAnalysis #OpenSource #CommandLine
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Jul 24, 2021
New feature: Persistent input history #DataScience #OpenSource #CLI
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Jan 10, 2021
Expansion of CLI Options #DataScience #CLI #OpenSource
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Jul 7, 2020
VisiData's Limits on Growth #DataScience #OpenSource #Tooling
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Jul 1, 2020
The implications of tabular data architecture #Data #OpenSource #Programming
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Jun 18, 2020
'VisiData is like duct tape for your data', an interview with Saul #DataScience #OpenSource #Commandline
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May 16, 2020
Unloaded Sheets #DataScience #Tool #OpenSource
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Feb 11, 2020
New Features in 2.-3: repeat-last and repeat-input #DataScience #CommandLine #OpenSource
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Feb 9, 2020
New feature in 2.-3: Split Window #DataScience #CommandLine #OpenSource
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Feb 2, 2020
Hello World! #OpenSource #DataScience #Commandline
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Jan 19, 2020
VisiData Case Study #1 Transcript: summing donation data from a webpage #DataAnalysis #OpenSource #CommandLine
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Jan 15, 2020
Exploratory Data Analysis Made Easy At The Command Line - Episode 230 #DataScience #CommandLine #Python
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Oct 30, 2019
The very last VisiData TinyLetter! #VisiData #OpenSource #CommandLine
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Dec 26, 2018
Version 1.3.1 released; is this the last TinyLetter? #DataScience #OpenSource #Tooling
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Aug 31, 2018
I'll show you my .visidatarc if you show me yours #VisiData #CommandLine #DataExploration
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Jul 24, 2018
VisiData: Video #6 (Big Melt); keyboard cheatsheet; the Great Renaming #DataScience #OpenSource #Tool
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Jun 21, 2018
PyCon2018 and Video #5 #Data #Tool #OpenSource
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May 19, 2018
Version 1.2 released; video #4 describes a major new feature #DataScience #OpenSource #Tooling
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May 3, 2018
VisiData Case Study #3: graphing calculator #DataScience #Tool #OpenSource
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Apr 16, 2018
VisiData Case Study #2: save selected cities from a csv in json format #DataScience #OpenSource #Tool
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Apr 9, 2018
VisiData Case Study #1 released on Youtube #DataScience #OpenSource #Tool
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Apr 2, 2018
VisiData 1.1 released: menus and more #OpenSource #DataScience #CLI
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Mar 6, 2018
VisiData 1.0 official release! #OpenSource #DataScience #CLI
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Jan 26, 2018
VisiData v0.99 released; last stop before 1.0 #VisiData #OpenSource #CommandLine
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Dec 26, 2017
VisiData v0.98 has been released! #DataScience #OpenSource #Tooling
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Nov 24, 2017
VisiData v0.98 preview: Graphs #DataScience #OpenSource #Tool
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Nov 6, 2017