@vcli-org/vcli
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Quickly visualize CSV data from the command line
Install node.js via package manager or download, if you haven't already.
Install the vcli package globally
$ npm install -g vcli
USAGE
$ vcli [FILE]
$ cat [FILE] | vcli
ARGUMENTS
FILE Path to CSV file (instead of piping data into vcli)
OPTIONS
-h, --help show CLI help
-v, --version show CLI version
-x, --x-axis=x-axis Column index/name to plot on x-axis of charts. For date fields you can specify an aggregate function like start_date:month
(supports day/month/year)
-y, --y-axis=y-axis Column index/name to plot on y-axis of charts. You can also specify an aggregate function like sales:sum (supports
count/min/max/sum/mean/median/p5/p95)
--facet=facet Column index/name that will be used to group data into separate charts
--port=port Port to run the local webserver on (default is 8888)
$ vcli data.csv
$ vcli -x date:month -y cases:sum --facet state data.csv
$ curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/master/us-counties.csv | vcli
By default Node.js processes have 512mb of memory, if you are processing a very large file you could run into out of memory errors like the following:
FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory
You can increase this memory limit by prepending your vcli command with an extra option:
export NODE_OPTIONS="--max_old_space_size=8192" && vcli ...
Contributions are welcome, see CONTRIBUTING.md
0.0.3
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