October 17, 2025

New

  • Geocoding: process entries in a column to get a dot map using generated latitude and longitude values (available for Rowboat+ users)
  • Rename entries: rename a single category or a group of merged categories
  • Filter preview: press Alt (Mac) or Option (Windows) while hovering over certain header charts (bars, histogram, donut, treemap) to get a quick preview of the filter results

Improvements

  • If a column is mostly errors upon changing to datetime, prompt user for datetime format
  • Clarify layout of datetime format dialog
  • Prevent flash of mean before median loads on histogram
  • Highlight sample text on hover
  • Improve performance when replacing values in a filter
  • Improve performance when tallying values for a header donut chart
  • Add dot size slider to expanded lat/lon maps
  • Add zoom-to-bounds checkbox to ZIP code map
  • Add an option to trim entries while splitting a column
  • Enable editing on datetime filters
  • Allow for editing the filename when exporting a file
  • Allow for multiple inverted filters on a column
  • If the user has manually selected a header chart other than the default, try to keep that preference after data updates
  • Sorted values: display hovered or selected value

Fixes

  • Fix a bug where files with encodings other than UTF-8 would crash on reload
  • Improve visual consistency of arrow indicating direction of data sort
  • Constrain width of very long filters
  • Fix a bug where setting the data type of a column to Decimal would not update the readout of empties, uniques, and errors
  • Improve likelihood of snapshot captures working in Safari
  • Fix a bug where clicking outside of the split or join dialogs would not dismiss the operation
  • Only show button to refresh samples when there are more samples to get
  • Stacked histogram: keep "Scale to 100%" checkbox preference consistent while filtering
  • Fix a bug where creating a new column (through split or join) while filtered would not display the correct set of data in the header chart
  • Hide focus outlines on programmatically focused elements
  • Fix a sharing bug where adding the email of a invited user would cause an error
  • Fix a bug where donut and treemap header charts would show an incompatible "value" option for text columns

Browser extension

  • Always show "Open table in Rowboat" option
  • Fixes to Safari extension

September 22, 2025

  • Enable log scaling on choropleth maps
  • Enable median calculations on filtered data

September 19, 2025

  • Fix bug with filtering on empties on split columns
  • Fix lat/lon map rendering on GL canvas

September 17, 2025

  • Fixed a bug where traces of a previous map would flash upon opening a new map
  • Fixed a bug where a blank page would be inserted at the start of an exported PDF
  • Fixed a bug where a map title would contain duplicated column names

September 16, 2025

Maps

  • Map counties correctly by applying state column or selecting a state
  • Detect FIPS codes and ZIP codes and provide hints about the supported chart type for the data
  • Add "zoom to bounds" to big lat/lon maps
  • Visual refinement of coordinate dots on big lat/lon maps to see density
  • Improvements to code for guessing and matching geographical data
  • Remove support for 3-digit county FIPS
  • Improve speed of interaction on big choropleth maps

Filter and search

  • Add "find in column" functionality to Find panel
  • Implement undo and redo with filter history
  • Fix bug where editing an inverted filter would not carry over the inverted status for the edited filter

Opening data

  • Add "Open link in Rowboat" and "Open table in Rowboat" to right click menu
  • Allow commas/dollars/percents during column type detection

Exploring data

  • Implement "group by" operation in sorted values chart
  • Add the ability to refresh samples shown in header

Exporting images

  • Enable PDF and PNG exports for time series charts
  • Fix bug where exported lat/lon maps sometimes did not include both column names in the file name
  • Fix bug where exporting a PDF after removing a time scrubber would not update the data correctly on the export
  • Fix visual bugs in quick snapshot images

Miscellaneous

  • Improvements to bars: width calculation, performance, readability
  • Fix bug where opening a scatterplot after filtering would cause a crash
  • Fix dragging and resizing on Firefox, and enable resizing rightmost column
  • Fix bug where opening a big chart can sometimes have sizing issues left behind by previous charts

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