csvviz 0.4.9.2

Create visualizations from CSV files and the command line

csvviz

Create visualizations from CSV files and the command line

Current status

Pretty usable:

$ csvviz bar -x name -y amount examples/tings.csv

$ csvviz line -x date -y price -c company examples/stocks.csv

But undocumented so far, other than running $ csvviz --help

Features

• Can do the standard chart types

• Produces validated Vega-lite JSON output that can be reused

• Free software: MIT license

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

Dev instructions

To install on your own machine for development:

$ make install

Note: setup.py/requirements.txt is not correctly set up yet…

(note to self) To publish on pypi:

$ make release

History

0.4.0-alpha (ongoing)

• Can specify var titles with pipe-delimited syntax, e.g. -x 'fieldname|The field name'

0.3.1 (2020-09-30)

• Removed (non-existent) Python 3.5 compat, fixed 3.6 & 3.7 compat

• Normalized area and bar charts with -N/--normalize

• removed ‘-alpha’ tag

0.3.0-alpha (2020-09-28)

New chart types

• area

• hist (like bar charts, but for frequency count only)

• line

• scatter, which can act as bubble chart if --sizevar param is set

Grid (i.e. trellis/small multiples)

For any chart type, use -g/--grid to specify variable to map chart multiples

0.2.1-alpha (2020-09-23)

General

• Fixed total breakage

0.2.0-alpha (2020-09-23)

General

• csvviz --version prints out version

• viz options

  • –theme to set chart theme

  • –json to output Vegalite chart specification in JSON

  • –no-preview to not preview chart in browser (useful for testing)

  • –interactive/–static to show an interactive chart or not (default is ‘static’)

cli.info

• a command for general help and listing

• Show list of colors, colorschemes, themes, etc

cli.bar

• arguments and options

  • x,y options accept integers (as strings)

  • –fill/-s

  • -H/–horizontal for horizontal bars (vertical columns is default)

• –colors/-c to set colors

• –color-scheme/-C to specify a color scheme

0.1.1-alpha (2020-09-15 16:30)

cli.bar

• Minimally functional: $ csvviz bars -x name -y things examples/tings.csv

0.1.0-alpha (2020-09-15)

First release on PyPI. Just a cookiecutter-pypackage skeleton stub.