Support for the Apache Parquet file format

Hello! Is there any work being done to support the Apache Parquet file format?

The two data processing tools that I use locally with parquet are:

• python pandas [1] [2] for programmatic access
  
• visidata [3] (CLI that uses pandas under the hood) for more "interactive" access
  

I'm wondering why Parquet is not yet a supported format in LibreOffice Calc (and most desktop worksheet processing tools for that matter).

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].

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.

• [1] https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.read_parquet.html
• [2] https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.to_parquet.html
• [3] https://visidata.org/formats/
• [4] https://drill.apache.org/docs/tableau-examples/
• [5] https://drill.apache.org/docs/parquet-format/
  

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