[reegnz]

Allow me to advertise my zsh jq plugin +jq-repl: https://github.com/reegnz/jq-zsh-plugin

I find that for big datasets choosing the right format is crucial. Using json-lines format + some shell filtering (eg. head, tail to limit the range, egrep or ripgrep for the more trivial filtering) to reduce the dataset to a couple of megabytes, then use that jq-repl of mine to iterate fast on the final jq expression.

I found that the REPL form factor works really well when you don't exactly know what you're digging for.