SMRTR ProgrammingJun 17, 2026lobste.rs

Data Visualization from the Comfort of your Terminal

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xan is a fast CLI tool for tabular data processing that can also render scatter plots, heatmaps, bar charts, time series, and more — all inside your terminal. This guide walks through every visualization command, from xan view for table previews to xan plot for multi-series graphs, showing how to explore CSV data without ever opening Jupyter, Excel, or a browser.

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