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Modern Polars – A side-by-side comparison of the Polars and Pandas libraries


A side-by-side comparison of the Polars and Pandas libraries.

(In case you haven’t heard, Polars is a very fast and elegant dataframe libary that does the same kinds of things Pandas does.) The bulk of this book is structured examples of idiomatic Polars and Pandas code, with commentary on the API and performance of both. So credit goes to Tom for the Pandas examples, for most of the data fetching code and for the general structure of the articles.

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