Exploratory Data Analysis Made Easy At The Command Line

The Python Podcast.__init__

• Episode: Exploratory Data Analysis Made Easy At The Command Line
• Website: The Python Podcast.__init__
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• Duration: 00:52:50
• Published: 2019-09-23 14:49

There are countless tools and libraries in Python for data scientists to perform powerful analyses, but they often have a setup cost that acts as a barrier to ad-hoc exploration of data. Visidata is a command line application that eliminates the friction involved with starting the discovery process. In this episode Saul Pwanson explains his motivation for creating it, why a terminal environment is a useful place for this work, and how you can use Visidata for your own work. If you have ever avoided looking at a data set because you couldn't be bothered with the boilerplate for a Jupyter notebook, then Visidata is the perfect addition to your toolbox.