visidata - VisiData - Terminal Spreadsheet for Data Exploration
Explore data interactively in the terminal instead of writing one-off jq or SQL queries
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Updated: 2026-03-09Capabilities
Typical Inputs
Typical Outputs
What this skill does
- open CSV files
- open JSON files
- open Excel files
- navigate data tables
- search data
- sort data columns
- create frequency tables
- generate statistics summary
- convert file formats
Inputs
- CSV files
- JSON files
- Excel files
- SQLite databases
- tmux session
- terminal input
Outputs
- terminal display
- captured pane content
- converted files
- filtered data views
Requirements
- VisiData installation
- tmux for programmatic control
- terminal environment