Polars with Ritchie Vink

Allen Wyma talks with Ritchie Vink (ritchievink.com) about his work on Polars (pola.rs), a DataFrame library written in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Meet Ritchie Vink - Creator of Polars

• [@02:00] - What is a DataFrame?

• [@05:19] - Arrow (arrow.apache.org)

• [@07:26] - NumPy (numpy.org)

• [@11:31] - Polars vs Pandas (pandas.pydata.org)

• [@17:32] - Using Polars in app development

• [@25:24] - Python and Rust docs

• [@31:49] - Polars 1.0 release

• [@35:21] - What keeps Ritchie working on Polars

• [@37:27] - Growing Polars without bloat

• [@39:57] - Closing discussions

Credits

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Show Notes: Plangora (twitter.com/plangora)

Hosts: Allen Wyma (twitter.com/allenwyma)