vega-view

[arnolddevos]

Hi, here is a simple visualisation tool called vega-view that I created. It displays nushell tables using Vega Lite in a webview. vega-view operates from the command line and pops open a window for the visualisation. It does not rely on the network or web browser.

For example, if you have a source of data such as a file example.json the command open example.json | vega view (vega bar b --category=t --subcategory=a) pops up a window with a bar graph.

The advantage of combining nushell with vega is that nushell can source and manipulate many forms of data which vega-lite can visualise in many different ways.

But vega-view can be used without nushell to. The core vega-view executable expects JSON data and a vega-lite specification to produce a visualisation in a window.

[domoritz]

Very cool. Want to send us a pull request to add this to https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/ecosystem.html?

[arnolddevos]

Done. BTW I did not immediately find the ecosystem page. I stumbled on https://github.com/joaopalmeiro/awesome-vega which does not seem to be in use. Anyway, the ecosystem page is full of useful things.