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If you work in data science, you definitely know about data frame libraries. Pandas is certainly the most popular, but there are others such as cuDF, Modin, Polars, Dask, and more. They are all similar but definitely not the same APIs and Polars is quite different. But here's the problem. If you want to write a library that is for users of more than one of these data frame frameworks, how do you do that? Or if you want to leave open the possibility of changing yours after the app is built, same problem. That's the problem that Narwhals solves. We have Marco Gorelli on the show to tell us all about it. Episode sponsors WorkOS Talk Python Courses Links from the show Marco Gorelli: @marcogorelli Marco on LinkedIn: linkedin.com Narwhals: github.io Narwhals on Github: github.com DuckDB: duckdb.org Ibis: ibis-project.org modin: readthedocs.io Pandas and Beyond with Wes McKinney: talkpython.fm Polars: A Lightning-fast DataFrame for Python: talkpython.fm Polars: pola.rs Pandas: pandas.pydata.org Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com Episode transcripts: talkpython.fm --- Stay in touch with us --- Subscribe to us on YouTube: youtube.com Follow Talk Python on Mastodon: talkpython Follow Michael on Mastodon: mkennedy

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If you work in data science, you definitely know about data frame libraries. Pandas is certainly the most popular, but there are others such as cuDF, Modin, Polars, Dask, and more. They are all similar but definitely not the same APIs and Polars is quite different. But here's the problem. If you want to write a library that is for users of more than one of these data frame frameworks, how do you do that? Or if you want to leave open the possibility of changing yours after the app is built, same problem. That's the problem that Narwhals solves. We have Marco Gorelli on the show to tell us all about it.

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00:59:15
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2024-10-09 00:00
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  Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy)
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