Visidata: [community question] Where does your data go after Visidata?

[frosencrantz]

I wonder how do people use Visidata in their workflows?

For me, I mostly use it to find insights about my data. I might use that insight to take some immediate action, or I might use it as background understanding. Sometimes I export a table (via vdtabluate) and share it with others.

Where does your data go after Visidata?

• Are you using Visidata to clean, convert or reshape the data?
• Is the data going into Excel, notebooks, R, etc?
• Are you sharing the data with others? How?

[saulpw]

This is a great question, @frosencrantz! Just yesterday I found myself using gs gzY (select-visible then syscopy-cells) to copy a column of values to my system clipboard, which I then pasted into vim.

I also wonder if most people know about Ctrl+Q when combined with stdout redirect (which makes vd into a kind of interactive selector in the middle of a pipeline). I hope other people will chime in with their 'data destinations'!

[ajkerrigan]

Sweet question :). (Also appreciate the mention of vdtabulate, I've scrolled right past that and never used it before!)

* Are you using Visidata to clean, convert or reshape the data?

Sometimes. I've used VisiData with vfake to get scrubbed data from private sources. It's nice to have a safe, quick way to interactively sample and scrub data. Really handy for creating test data from real API responses, or providing documentation with reproduction steps for software issues.

* Is the data going into Excel, notebooks, R, etc?

For my own use, probably not. For sharing with other folks, yes.

* Are you sharing the data with others? How?

Excel, Google Docs, Jira comments/attachments, S3...

I'm not sure if screensharing counts for this question. I've occasionally used VisiData to help with brainstorming or troubleshooting calls though.

[anjakefala]

Hi @frosencrantz!

To keep our issue counts manageable, I am going to close this issue, and direct folks to write aboutt where their data goes afterwards in #595. =)

Thanks for creating this lil space. :purple_heart:

[frosencrantz]

It was very nice to see this pinned for a while. I do think this is a different question #595

It is was great to hear from Saul and AJ. I would have liked to hear from other regular contributors such as yourself. I was hoping it would generate more interest.