tools & toolchains for data munging & analysis
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csvkit
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This is super handy.  Wish I'd started using it sooner:

> csvkit is a suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV, the
> king of tabular file formats.
>
> ...
>
> csvkit is to tabular data what the standard Unix text processing suite (grep,
> sed, cut, sort) is to text. As such, csvkit adheres to the Unix philosophy.
>
> 1. Small is beautiful.
> 2. Make each program do one thing well.
> 3. Build a prototype as soon as possible.
> 4. Choose portability over efficiency.
> 5. Store data in flat text files.
> 6. Use software leverage to your advantage.
> 7. Use shell scripts to increase leverage and portability.
> 8. Avoid captive user interfaces.
> 9. Make every program a filter.

-- [csvkit 0.9.0](https://csvkit.readthedocs.org/en/0.9.0)

jq
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Also super handy, if a notch less intuitive.  Powerful DSL / pretty-printer /
filter for working with JSON records at the command line.

- http://stedolan.github.io/jq/