alt.hn

5/18/2025 at 3:56:18 PM

Show HN: Buckaroo – Data table UI for Notebooks

by paddy_m

5/18/2025 at 5:11:42 PM

This looks really cool. I will say my default solution for this, and the default across my org, is Data Wrangler in VS Code[1]. My only wish list item is if the low code solution wrote polars instead of pandas. Any thoughts on how hard that might be to accomplish?

1: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-tools...

by ZeroCool2u

5/18/2025 at 5:24:07 PM

Thank you.

The Buckaroo lowcode UI is capable of working with Polars, but I don't currently have any commands plumbed in. I will work on that.

I'm aware of Data Wrangler and they did nice work, but it's closed source and from what I can tell non-extensible. What features do you like in Data Wrangler, what do you wish it did differently?

by paddy_m

5/18/2025 at 5:58:27 PM

I made a Marimo WASM example that you can play with in your browser [1]

I need to make some updates to the polars functionality, I just completed some extensive refactorings of the Lowcode UI focussed on pandas, time to clean that up for polars too.

Also the python codegen for polars is non-idiomatic with multiple re-assignments to a dataframe, vs one big select block. I have some ideas for how to fix that, but they'll take time.

https://marimo.io/p/@paddy-mullen/notebook-sctuj8

by paddy_m

5/19/2025 at 4:53:54 AM

This is really great, I'm looking forward to playing with it.

Currently I use a mix of quak (preferred) and itable (if starting fom a colab notebook). It will be interesting to compare for my use cases, which most consist of checking for the distribution of data in a new file, or verifying that a transform I did resulted in the right sort of stuff.

by epistasis

5/19/2025 at 4:57:39 PM

How does it compare to Data Wrangler ? I like Data Wrangler because it let us open up in a separate VS Code window.

by mathisd

5/18/2025 at 7:00:25 PM

But does it work across data tables with 8 dimensions?

by franky47

5/18/2025 at 9:46:14 PM

Only with the oscillation overthruster flag enabled.

by trsohmers

5/18/2025 at 6:24:31 PM

Congratulations on launching. Buckaroo looks great.

by RyanHamilton

5/19/2025 at 4:23:57 AM

Looks cool to me. I often just end out exporting and opening in excel to do this

by hodder

5/18/2025 at 10:36:17 PM

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by leelou2

5/19/2025 at 3:37:52 AM

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