# Tabular data visualisation in VS Code

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tabular-data-visualisation-in-vs-code/44193
**Category:** VS Code
**Created:** [August 3, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tabular-data-visualisation-in-vs-code/44193 "2020-08-03T14:38:55Z")
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### Author: ![sylvaticus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sylvaticus/32/203883_2.png) [@sylvaticus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sylvaticus)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tabular-data-visualisation-in-vs-code/44193/1 "2020-08-03T14:38:55Z")

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Hello, which are the options to work/visualise tabular data in VS Code ?  
In Atom I was using [TableView.jl](https://github.com/JuliaComputing/TableView.jl), but it doesn’t seem to work in VS Code.

I saw that VS Code has a “native” way to display tabular data (`vscodedisplay(x)` or using icon in Variable Panel) but it doesn’t seems to support `Array{Any,2}` (e.g. `b = [[1,2,3] ['a','b','c']]`) while TableView does.

Any workaround for displaying tables of `Any`?

Also, I believe it is in the roadmap, but if not… would it be possible to simplify the Variable Inspector (e.g. hide the “Cartesian Index” label) ? The variable explorer is a bit too bloated now 🙂

Thank you for their development…

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### Author: ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2020, 12:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tabular-data-visualisation-in-vs-code/44193/2 "2020-08-04T00:30:44Z")

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Hm, on my system it displays `b = [[1,2,3] ['a','b','c']]` just fine with `vscodedisplay` or by clicking on the icon in the workspace view…

> [@sylvaticus](#):
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> would it be possible to simplify the Variable Inspector (e.g. hide the “Cartesian Index” label) ?

Agreed! I don’t think we have an issue (but not 100% positive), do you want to open a new one?

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### Author: ![sylvaticus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sylvaticus/32/203883_2.png) [@sylvaticus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sylvaticus)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2020, 11:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tabular-data-visualisation-in-vs-code/44193/3 "2020-08-04T11:02:27Z")

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Here it is:  
[https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/issues/1567](https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/issues/1567)

The issue in displaying matrices of `Any` happens only together with `using TableView`, so it’s not really a problem.
