If you're a data journalist using Python and you are going to be at NICAR, we are running an introduction to Polars workshop.
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Oli Hawkins
If you are user of the Python package Pandas, I cannot recommend switching to Polars highly enough. #astrocode
I'm doing some groupbys for some plots, and a complicated set of string & numerical operations on *25 million rows* takes just 3 seconds on my laptop.
The Pandas equivalent: 2+ minutes. 🤯