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<p>Hello! Is there any work being done to support the Apache Parquet
file format?</p>
<p>The two data processing tools that I use locally with parquet
are:</p>
<ul>
<li>python pandas [1] [2] for programmatic access<br>
</li>
<li>visidata [3] (CLI that uses pandas under the hood) for more
"interactive" access<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>I'm wondering why Parquet is not yet a supported format in
LibreOffice Calc (and most desktop worksheet processing tools for
that matter).</p>
<p>On an unrelated note, I was also surprised to find out that
Tableau only supports Parquet through a database server like
Apache Drill [4][5].</p>
<p>I feel that parquet files are under-rated, and that perhaps
pushing for native desktop application support would encourage its
usage over the standard (and less efficient) CSV file format. I
may be completely wrong and would welcome feedback.<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>[1]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.read_parquet.html">https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.read_parquet.html</a></li>
<li>[2]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.to_parquet.html">https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.to_parquet.html</a></li>
<li>[3] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://visidata.org/formats/">https://visidata.org/formats/</a></li>
<li>[4] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://drill.apache.org/docs/tableau-examples/">https://drill.apache.org/docs/tableau-examples/</a></li>
<li>[5] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://drill.apache.org/docs/parquet-format/">https://drill.apache.org/docs/parquet-format/</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
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