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VisiData Documentation

Getting started

• VisiData video demo
• Installation

Tutorials

• Beginner: An Introduction to VisiData by Jeremy Singer-Vine
• Beginner: Guida VisiData by Andrea Borruso (onData association)
• Intermediate/Advanced (English): VisiData case study videos by creator Saul Pwanson

References

• quick reference guide for 2.0
  • all available commands and options
  • also available as a manpage via man vd and from inside VisiData with Ctrl+H
• quick reference guide for 1.5.2
• VisiData Cheat Sheet
• keyboard layout of commands

'How to' recipes

• Loading Data
  • Specifying a source file
  • Loading sources supported by pandas
  • Opening an R data frame with VisiData
  • Loading multiple datasets simultaneously
  • Accessing other loaded or derived sheets
  • Converting a dataset from one supported filetype into another
• Navigation
  • How to rapidly scroll through a sheet
  • How to search within a sheet
  • How to move between sheets
• Rows
  • How to perform operations on a subset of rows
  • How to filter rows
  • How to filter a random subset of rows
  • How to select rows where the current column is not null
  • How to select rows where the current column is null
  • How to move, copy and remove rows
  • How to sort rows
• Columns
  • How to manipulate columns
  • How to hide (remove) and unhide columns
  • How to specify column types
  • How to split a column
  • How to expand columns that contain nested data
  • How to create derivative columns
  • How to configure multiple columns
• Editing contents
  • How to edit cells
  • How to rename columns
• Grouping data and descriptive statistics
  • How to set statistical aggregators
  • How to create a pivot table
  • How to create a frequency chart
  • How to calculate descriptive statistics
  • How to filter for grouped or described rows
• Creating sheets, rows and columns
  • How to configure the cursor to move right after a successful edit
  • How to set up a sheet for data collection
  • How to add a new blank column
  • How to fill a column with a range of numbers
• Combining datasets
  • How to perform a join
  • How to append two datasets
• Drawing graphs
  • How to graph a single column
  • How to graph multiple columns
  • How to interact with graphs
• How to save and replay a VisiData session
• Customizing VisiData
  • How to configure VisiData (user)
  • How to configure VisiData (dev)
  • How to have configurations persist
  • How to configure commands
• Plugins - extending VisiData functionality
• Developing a loader
• STDOUT pipe/redirect

For developers

VisiData can interact with data from any source or in any format.

• VisiData API Guide
• guide to contributing
• viewtsv annotated