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Join the Documentation Drive Welcome to the great VisiData Documentation Consolidation of 2024!

VisiData is an incredibly powerful tool, often hailed as "world-class" and "the gold standard" for data exploration.

It was a lot of fun, and now Hanukkah of Data has finished.

Hey everyone!

I have some big news today.

Estimates of current and future usage [Since v1.3, the motd feature has served as a usage counter.

If you're a fan of VisiData and related tools, there are many ways you can help take VisiData to the next level.

Today, we celebrate 5 years of VisiData.

Hello!

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Like most tools, VisiData keeps a history of your responses to its prompts, so you can scroll through them in subsequent prompts using the Up and Down arrows.

Hello VisiDaters!

I added a page on the website, /limits, summarising a list of things we wish were different, but would require unwanted adjustments to the architecture to change.

A known bug in VisiData (#413) is that the contents of SettableColumns created with addcol-* are not able to be yanked (copied to VisiData's internal clipboard).

Saul was recently interviewed on The Changelog podcast!

If after you pass multiple files to vd on the command-line, you go straight to the Sheets Sheet, you'll see that only the first one is loaded: When a sheet is first created, it is considered "unloaded" (literally sheet.rows is UNLOADED).

Onto the develop branch, we have pushed two new commands: repeat-last and repeat-input.

Hey VisiDaters, check it out!

I have always wanted a home for longform conversations on VisiData.

This case study was originally a video, that was published on 2018-04-01.

This is an edited transcript of an interview about VisiData in this episode of Python.

[originally published as TinyLetter #16] Hello VisiData enthusiast, Thanks for signing up for this TinyLetter and for your continued support.

[originally published as TinyLetter #15] Hello VisiDaters!

[originally published as TinyLetter #14] Yo VisiDaters, Do you have a .visidatarc file?

[originally published as TinyLetter #13] Been awhile since I rapped at ya!

[originally published as TinyLetter #12] Greetings VisiDaters!

[originally published as TinyLetter #11] Hello VisiDaters!

[originally published as TinyLetter #10] Hello fellow VisiDaters!

[originally published as TinyLetter #9] Hello, The next installment of the VisiData video series is here!

[originally published as TinyLetter #8] Hello everyone, Welcome all you new subscribers!

[originally written as TinyLetter #7] Hello fellow textpunks, We got a bunch of new subscribers over the weekend, as the lightning talk VisiData video was submitted to HackerNews, and it proceeded to climb onto the front page where it stayed the whole day.

[originally published as TinyLetter #6] Hello again VisiData enthusiasts, VisiData 1.0 has been officially released!

[originally published as TinyLetter #5] Hello fellow VisiDataists, We pushed v0.99 to PyPi last week.

[originally published as TinyLetter #4] Hello all, Tonight Anja and I released VisiData v0.98, which can be installed as usual via pip3.

[originally published as TinyLetter #3] Hello VisiDaters, I recorded a 5 minute screencast to demo the new graphing functionality that will be out in v0.98 later this month.