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CLUSTER DATA-COMMAND-LINE · 8 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2022-05-03

Terminal data visualization tools

A cluster of command-line utilities that render structured data (JSON, Parquet, coverage reports, stock data, etc.) as tables, charts, and plots directly in a terminal session. The dated entry history shows sporadic initial activity (2020-2023)` followed by a long gap, with most members appearing between September 2025 and March 2026. The three traction leaders (parqeye, datui-bin, vis-cli) each show zero GitHub stars, so no single product stands out.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2022: 1MAY 2022: 1JAN 2023: 1SEP 2025: 1DEC 2025: 1JAN 2026: 1FEB 2026: 1MAR 2026: 1
JAN 2022MAR 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 7 unlabelled

Operator · 8 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 8 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01datui-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal application for interactive data exploration that lets users inspect and analyze datasets from the command line.
  2. 02parqeye0★1 moliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that inspects and displays the contents of Parquet data files directly from the terminal.
  3. 03vis-cli0★3 moliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that visualizes messy or fuzzy tabular data directly within a terminal session.
  4. 04incplot0★4 moliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that creates data plots in the terminal and as HTML with a focus on simplicity.
  5. 05python-matplotlib-backend-notcurses0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceLibrary that renders data plots directly in terminal windows for command-line users.
  6. 06charta-bin0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal utility that renders small colored charts to display data in the command line.
  7. 07ruby-youplot0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that plots data in charts directly in the terminal, allowing users to visualize data without leaving the shell.
  8. 08tstock0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool for generating and displaying stock charts in the terminal.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.