Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez - Beyond Pandas: The Great Python Dataframe Showdown | PyData London 2022

Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez Presents:

Beyond Pandas: The Great Python Dataframe Showdown

The pandas library is one of the key factors that enabled the growth of Python in the Data Science industry and continues to help data scientists thrive almost 15 years after its creation. Because of this success, nowadays there are several open-source projects that claim to improve pandas in various ways, either by bringing it to a distributed computing setting (Dask), accelerating its performance with minimal changes (Modin), or offering slightly different API that solves some of its shortcomings (Polars).

In this talk we will go over some of the most widely used dataframe Python libraries beyond pandas, clarify the relationship between them, compare them in terms of project scope and proximity to the original pandas API, and offer advice on when to use each of them.

If you are a seasoned pandas user willing to explore alternatives, or a beginner user wondering what is all the fuzz about these new dataframe libraries, this talk is for you!

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