Why would you want to do something like this for visualizing data instead of using ggplot or matplotlib (or really anything that can get you a real image instead of ascii?)
You can really go from not knowing what's in a file to a decent understanding in less than a minute.
Pipe in some fixed-width formatted data
kubectl get pods | vd -f fixed -
If I knew I wanted the failed ones I could have grepped or similar but I can then order by most restarts, etc.
This is a tiny part of the functionality but it's an example of "there's some tabular-ish data but what's there?". Load X, histogram, filter, sort is probably 90% of my use-cases.
> Load X, histogram, filter, sort is probably 90% of my use-cases.
Exaclty! Same for me.