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Polars with Ritchie Vink
Jan 5, 2024
Ritchie Vink, Creator of Polars, discusses data frames, Polars vs Pandas, using Polars in app development, and the 1.0 release of Polars. They also talk about the challenges of growing Polars without bloat and the changes and challenges in the Rust programming language.
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Quick takeaways
- Polars is a DataFrame library written in Rust that aims to be a better alternative to popular data frame libraries like pandas, with scalability and efficiency for handling large data sets.
- Polars is particularly useful for analytical workloads, such as OLAP, and can be beneficial in data cleaning and ETL tasks, allowing users to query and clean data from different file formats and save them in a more manageable and efficient format for further analysis.
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The journey of creating Polar's data frame library
Richie Vink, the creator of Polar's, discusses his background in software engineering and data science and how he got started with the idea of building a new data frame library. He explains that a data frame is similar to a table in a database, with columns of homogeneous type and a name. Polar's aims to be a better alternative to popular data frame libraries like pandas, with a focus on scalability and efficiency for handling large data sets. Richie also highlights the importance of the Apache Arrow memory format, which Polar's is based on, and its advantages in terms of memory efficiency and interoperability across different data science tools.
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