Why I Switched From Pandas to Polars | TDE Workshop

​In this workshop, Ben breaks down the 3 reasons he has permanently switched from Pandas to Polars and goes through a demo with code. Led by: Ben Feifke More Resources TDS Article: https://medium.com/towards-data-science/the-3-reasons-why-i-have-permanently-switched-from-pandas-to-polars-b41d013a787b Example Code: https://github.com/bfeif/personal-website/blob/main/code/notebooks/airbnb-prices-polars-demo.ipynb Udemy Course: https://www.udemy.com/course/data-analysis-with-polars/ Podcast Episode: https://www.inspiringcomputing.com/2107763/12718169 Connect with Ben LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-feifke/ Medium: https://medium.com/@benfeifke Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/benfeifke Homepage: https://benfeifke.com/ Keep up with The Data Entrepreneurs! 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDataEntrepreneurs 👉 Discord: https://discord.gg/RSqZbF9ygh 📰 Medium: https://medium.com/the-data-entrepreneurs 📅 Events: https://lu.ma/tde 🗞️ Newsletter: https://the-data-entrepreneurs.ck.page/profile Overview - 0:00 About Ben - 0:29 What's Polars - 3:19 Reason 1: .list namespace - 5:30 Reason 2: .scan_parquet() and .sink_parquet() - 11:48 Reason 3: Data-oriented Programming - 16:16 Demo - 20:58 Some Questions - 34:52 What’s Next? - 36:48 Q&A - 39:00