Would be quite compelling if the CLI worked with nushell.

I see the (a?) backend is polars, which is good as well.

This in CLI might be the quickest / tersest way to go from "have parquet / csv / other table format" to "see graph", though a keen polars / matplotlib user would also get there pretty quick.

The new visualisation tool from Posit. Combines SQL with the grammar of graphics, known from ggplot2, D3, and plotnine

Really cool project! Would love to see a standard established for representing visualizations in SQL! I built a whole dashboarding tool on top of the idea: https://taleshape.com/shaper/docs/getting-started/ But Shaper takes a more pragmatic approach and just uses built in functionality to describe how to visualize the results. The most value I see with viz as SQL is that it's a great format for LLMs to specify what they want while making it easy to audit and reproduce. Just built a slack bot on top of that concept last week: https://taleshape.com/blog/build-your-own-data-analytics-sla...

It is conceivable that this could become a duckdb extension, such that it can be used from within the duckdb CLI? That would be pretty slick.

Very cool. Though it would be great to see this implemented as a PostgreSQL extension (if possible).

What feels like a lifetime ago, I made almost all of the R tooling at Uber and actually implemented what was effectively exactly this on top of the R DB tooling. Everyone, I think correctly in retrospect, I showed it to thought it was more or less useless. I had hoped it would be a nice way to pull and instantly visualize data but that was rarely all that valuable like this.

The cli only produces vega-lite[0] json graphics, right?

It would be nice if it included a rendering engine.

[0]: https://github.com/vega/vega-lite

Looks intriguing. Brings plotting to Sql instead of “transforming” sql for plotting.

Outstanding!

This can replace a lot of Excel in the end.

It makes so much sense now that it exists!