Polars: the fastest dataframe crate in Rust - with Ritchie Vink (Ep. 146)

Ritchie Vink, author of Polars, the fastest dataframe library in Rust, discusses his background in data science and how he started working on Polars. They also explore the challenges of designing a new data manipulation library, the significance of thread safety and parallelism in Rust, the use of Apache Arrow as a backhand for communication, and the importance of SIMD instructions in optimizing operations.