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Mainly for the cascaded pivot option.
First remarks : - Requires \n or \r\n end line, not working with \r
- Requires comma as separator (not possible to change it or I don't find how)
- Does not support (for exemple) ANSI encoding
Maybe I missed it but how is this better than Excel?
I don't think I ever claimed it was better than Excel, which is targeted at different set of users and use cases. That said, here are some reasons why some users might prefer Tad to Excel: It's free and MIT licensed with the sources on github. It's available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It works on any tabular data source. The UI for creating a pivot table is clear and intuitive and efficient (just a few clicks); many…
Just on that point, Excel allows you to define the field delimiter on import of text files and handles a ton of different formats out of the box, so I doubt this is a point where Tad is better than Excel (though Tad does look promising as a tool to quickly check data files).
Wow, this seems simple but I got excited immediately when seeing this. Since I have been writing code to export data for clients, I have grown so tired of Kingsoft Spreadsheets and Google Sheets lagging like crazy with any sizable amounts of data. This will be a cool new tool to show my coworkers tomorrow and I'll be using it. Performance seems very snappy so far!
I really don't understand how anyone can use Google office apps, the UI is painfully slow. I was using Gnumeric before, but I'll try this out, thanks OP!
But honestly, if you care about collaborating on text and not its formatting, then I'd suggest hosting an Etherpad instance somewhere :).
Very nice ! Mainly for the cascaded pivot option. First remarks : - Requires \n or \r\n end line, not working with \r - Requires comma as separator (not possible to change it or I don't find how) - Does not support (for exemple) ANSI encoding
Very nice ! Mainly for the cascaded pivot option. First remarks : - Requires \n or \r\n end line, not working with \r - Requires comma as separator (not possible to change it or I don't find how) - Does not support (for exemple) ANSI encoding
Just out of curiosity, which systems uses \r as newline these days? As far as I understand it, Mac OS did it prior to its version 10 (its Unix version), but the modern macOS does not.
- Sad to see it's an Electron app, but I don't want to start this flamewar all over again
- Mid-sized CSV file opens fairly quick
- If you want to build this into a full-fledged app, be prepared to handle a lot of CSV edge cases, also think about supporting AVRO, Parquet files
- Regarding filtering: I can filter on CONTAINS and '=' but not on NOT-CONTAINS or '' I think? This is annoying to filter out empty strings (didn't check in much detail so I might be wrong here)
- Regarding filtering: I have a lot of columns, would be nice if the dropdown would allow me typing some characters to prune the list and quickly find what I'm looking for
- You might think about including some statistics per column, e.g. variance or entropy to allow for exploration in case many columns are present and you quickly want to highlight the more "interesting" ones
Congrats on putting something out! Some competition in this space: https://exploratory.io/, https://github.com/saulpw/visidata and http://www.delimitware.com/ (as others have mentioned).
Looks fantastic! I love the combination of SQLite fixed schema with the hierarchical view. Some advice on the website: Do some browser sniffing (I know) to display a screenshot of the software on the user's operating system. This immediately answers the question "Does the software work on my computer?" Also, the source code link should be near the Download section. Not everyone is trained that the triangle GitHub ico…
The screenshot suggestion is a good one, whenever I open a GUI software page and see a screenshot of Windows or MacOS I often just close the tab and move on.