Description of the desired feature

Originally posted by @meghanrjones in #1441 (comment)

This is somewhat related - I am not sure if it's worth a deprecation but I think we should decide on whether the parameter for tabular input is data or table for all modules moving forward. Currently, this is the distribution:

data parameter: surface, wiggle, velo, rose, plot3d, plot, contour
table parameter: blockmedian, blockmean, histogram
other: grdtrack (points), text (textfiles)

It would also be worthwhile to set a consistent order for the positional arguments x, y, [z], data, [outfile]

Are you willing to help implement and maintain this feature? Discuss first