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You might want to look into Futhark https://futhark-lang.org/
Re:The CSV Virtual Table on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @04:51PM (#30620478)
I think you can use sqlite-utils to accomplish this if interested: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/cli.html?highlig...
Re:The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook on Saturday February 13, 2021 @09:49PM (#26129216)
Another great tool for data exploration is visidata! This is a good example of what it can do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1CBDTgGtOU
Re:Show HN: Log-Scale Covid-19 Plots on Saturday April 04, 2020 @10:55AM (#22778555)
In this video John Burn-Murdoch (the creator of the FT charts) discusses why they decided against showing numbers per capita. https://mobile.twitter.com/janinegibson/status/1244519429825...

There's also this tweet additionally showing how population size of a country has no relationship to pace of disease spread. https://mobile.twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1246185741304...

I wondered the same thing for a while. Just this week I came across https://www.knack.com/. It looks pretty good so far but I haven't really explored it yet to see how well it works out.