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Explore

With the explore command you can open your dataset in Visidata which is an amazing visual tool for working with tabular data in Console. For example try "Shift+F" for creating data histograms!

Installation

pip install frictionless[visidata]
pip install frictionless[visidata,zenodo] # for examples in this tutorial

Example

For example, let's expore this interesing dataset:

frictionless explore https://zenodo.org/record/3977957

Documentation

Before entering Visidata, it's highly recommended to read its documentation:

You can get it in Console as well:

vd --help
usage: vd [options] [input ...]
  see https://visidata.org/man for full reference