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This is true. There are two tools you need to know for this: duckdb and visidata. With these tools, Parquet is almost as easy as CSVs (but a few orders of magnitude more powerful and faster)

Parquet is also usable in polars and pandas, and Apache Spark too but that’s getting into complicated territory.

DuckDB it’s literally just

   Select * from ‘s3://bucket/*.parquet’