# Do you use Panoply / ncview / other command line viz tool?

**URL:** <https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/do-you-use-panoply-ncview-other-command-line-viz-tool/3693>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Created:** [September 21, 2023, 8:03pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/do-you-use-panoply-ncview-other-command-line-viz-tool/3693 "2023-09-21T20:03:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![ahuang11](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.pangeo.io/ahuang11/32/2290_2.png) [@ahuang11](https://discourse.pangeo.io/u/ahuang11)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 8:08pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/do-you-use-panoply-ncview-other-command-line-viz-tool/3693/2 "2023-09-21T20:08:49Z")

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To provide my thoughts as a past user of panoply:

1. When I need to quickly examine a data file, e.g. model output without having to type the following (before hvplot was released):

```auto
import xarray as xr
ds = xr.open_dataset("path/to/file")["take time to figure out var name"].isel(remove_other_variables=0)
ds.plot(x="take_time_to_figure_out_x", y="take time to figure out y name")

```

And sometimes, I would just create a .py file / notebook in the data directory, which is a bit disorganized.

1. A plot immediately shows, support for a variety of file formats,
2. Interactively zoom-in/out and check for values at points
3. I would 🙂

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