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Listen "885: Python Polars: The Definitive Guide, with Jeroen Janssens and Thijs Nieuwdorp"
Episode Synopsis
Jeroen Janssens and Thijs Nieuwdorp are data frame library Polars’ greatest advocates in this episode with Jon Krohn, where they discuss their book, Python Polars: The Definitive Guide, best practice for using Polars, why Pandas users are switching to Polars for data frame operations in Python, and how the library reduces memory usage and compute time up to 10x more than Pandas. Listen to the episode to be a part of an O’Reilly giveaway!
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/885
This episode is brought to you by Trainium2, the latest AI chip from AWS, by Adverity, the conversational analytics platform and by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA.
Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email [email protected] for sponsorship information.
In this episode you will learn:
(07:44) Why Jeroen and Thijs wrote Python Polars: The Definitive Guide
(21:54) Best practices in Polars
(25:55) Why Polars has so many users
(34:32) The benefits of the Great Tables package
(51:06) Jeroen and Thijs’ partnership with NVIDIA and Dell for Python Polars: The Definitive Guide
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/885
This episode is brought to you by Trainium2, the latest AI chip from AWS, by Adverity, the conversational analytics platform and by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA.
Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email [email protected] for sponsorship information.
In this episode you will learn:
(07:44) Why Jeroen and Thijs wrote Python Polars: The Definitive Guide
(21:54) Best practices in Polars
(25:55) Why Polars has so many users
(34:32) The benefits of the Great Tables package
(51:06) Jeroen and Thijs’ partnership with NVIDIA and Dell for Python Polars: The Definitive Guide
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