# microsoft/data-formulator

> An interactive data analysis system from Microsoft Research: AI agents connect to files, databases and BI tools while users explore data and build charts via UI and natural language.

- Magnitude: 0.8 out of 10 — Cooling
- Stars: 17,541 total · +1 star measured 2026-10-08, 00:09–10:24 UTC, ≈ 2 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Data & analytics · Language: Python · License: MIT · Created: 2024-06-07 · Last push: 2026-10-08
- GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/data-formulator · Homepage: https://data-formulator.ai/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/microsoft/data-formulator

## Useful for

- Connect a CSV or database and build charts through a dialogue with the agent
- Branch the analysis into multiple questions in a Data Thread and compare results
- Run locally via uvx or Docker and extract data from a screenshot or text

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-08 (UTC), 00:09–10:24: 17540 → 17541 stars (+1). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +3 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,726
- Issues and pull requests: 457
- Watchers: 116
- Average over the last week: 6 per day
- Usual pace: 23 per day
- Latest release: 0.8b1 (2026-08-15)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 5, 9, 9, 3, 1, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

09-24 0.7, 09-25 0.9, 09-27 3.5, 09-28 3.5, 09-29 2.2, 09-30 1.5, 10-01 1.8, 10-02 1.5, 10-03 1.4, 10-04 1.3, 10-05 1.1, 10-06 1.4, 10-07 1.4, 10-08 0.9

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-08 10:27 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.