Rowboat | October 17, 2025

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

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