2025-11-23 –, Plenary Space
Polars (pola.rs) is a new addition to the family of "DataFrame" data manipulation and analysis libraries. In the Python world it's rapidly becoming a highly performant "competitor" to the Pandas library for data science and data processing.
This talk is an introduction to the library and its usage, aimed at beginners as well as people who have done some work with Pandas, for comparison.
Polars (pola.rs) is a new addition to the family of "DataFrame" data manipulation and analysis libraries. In the Python world it's rapidly becoming a highly performant "competitor" to the Pandas library for data science and data processing.
This talk is an introduction to the library and its usage, aimed at beginners as well as people who have done some work with Pandas, for comparison.
Anyone
In 2001 Tom handed in a programming assignment for a university class that came out to about two thousand lines of Java. His professor later shared their model answer to the problem, it was thirty lines of Python. Tom switched sides on the spot.
Tom is a senior software engineer for Kraken Technologies, and is the vice president of Python New Zealand, the charity promoting and supporting the Python language community in New Zealand.