Polars with Ritchie Vink
Rustacean Station
Differences Between Pandas and Polars
This chapter explores the distinctions between Pandas and Polars, highlighting their performance, data handling capabilities, and design principles. It discusses how Pandas is backed by NumPy but lacks the handling of missing data and strings, which are addressed by Polars. The chapter also covers Polars' lazy API, streaming operations, and memory efficiency advantages over Pandas.
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