What polars does for you.
2023-07-20 , North Hall

Ritchie Vink is the Author of the new Polars DataFrame library. The library that is built for modern hardware.

Polars is a query engine written in Rust that focusses on the DataFrame front-end. It is written from scratch in Rust designed to be fast, parallel and memory efficient. This talk we'll go through in the design of Polars and some of its design decisions.


Ritchie Vink is the Author of the new Polars DataFrame library. The library that is built for modern hardware.

Polars is a query engine written in Rust that focusses on the DataFrame front-end. It is written from scratch in Rust designed to be fast, parallel and memory efficient. This talk we'll dive deeper the design of Polars.


Expected audience expertise:

intermediate

Ritchie Vink is the author of the Polars DataFrame library and query engine. He has been working as a software engineer and machine learning engineer for 8 years. Before he started polars, he did many side projects on varying topics in computer science and statistics.