Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

827: Polars: Past, Present and Future, with Polars Creator Ritchie Vink


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Ritchie Vink, CEO and Co-Founder of Polars, Inc., speaks to Jon Krohn about the new achievements of Polars, an open-source library for data manipulation. This is the episode for any data scientist on the fence about using Polars, as it explains how Polars managed to make such improvements, the APIs and integration libraries that make it so versatile, and what’s next for this efficient library.


This episode is brought to you by epic LinkedIn Learning instructor Keith McCormick, by Gurobi, the Decision Intelligence Leader, and by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email [email protected] for sponsorship information.


In this episode you will learn:

  • Why Polars is so efficient [05:20]
  • Polars’ easy integration with other data-processing tools [21:23]
  • Eager vs lazy executive in Polars [32:15]
  • Polars’ data processing of large- and small-scale datasets [38:28]
  • Ritchie’s plans to scale his company [46:14]
  • Upcoming features in Polars [58:06]

  • Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/827

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