New Additions
Tutorials & workshops
- Cookbook Polars for R - A side-by-side comparison of Polars, R base, dplyr and data.table packages by @ddotta.
- Polars Workshop on AWS - A comprehensive workshop comparing Polars to Pandas, exploring a wide range of functions and features by @debnsuma.
- Polars cookbook in Python - This cookbook is a fork of the popular pandas-cookbook and has been modified to use the polars library. By @escobar-west, it uses real-world examples with "all the bugs and weirdness that entails."
Blog posts
- Pandas vs Polars – Speed Comparison - A blog post that compares the performance of Polars, Pandas and Pandas 2.0 by @StuffbyYuki. Code used is available on Github here.
- LazyFrame vs DataFrame in Polars – Performance Comparison - A blog post that introduces what LazyFrame is in Polars and its performance gain compared to DataFrame by @StuffbyYuki. Code used is available on Github here.
- Querying Polars DataFrames using SQL - A blog post that shows how to use the SQLContext object in Python to query a Polars DataFrame directly using SQL by @weimenglee.
- Polars vs Pandas: A Brief Tale of Two DataFrame Libraries - A blog post that compares Polars and Pandas focusing in particular on optional dependencies by @ranggakd.
Talks and videos
- Polars - make the switch to lightning-fast dataframes ⏳
30 min- A talk that reports an experience switching from Pandas to Polars in a real-world ML project by @datenzauberai. Slides are available here. - Polars: A highly optimized dataframe library ⏳
20 min- A video that presents some mains features of Polars by @mattharrison.
What's Changed
- Add blog post by @StuffbyYuki by @ddotta in #101
- Add comparison blog post by @StuffbyYuki by @ddotta in #103
- Add blog post about querying Polars DataFrames using SQL by @ddotta in #105
- Add cookbook Polars for R by @ddotta in #108
- Add workshop by @debnsuma by @ddotta in #109
- Add blog post by @ranggakd by @ddotta in #111
- Add link to video - make the switch to lightning-fast dataframes by @ddotta in #114
- Add talk by @mattharrison by @ddotta in #115
- Add polars cookbook in Python by @escobar-west by @ddotta in #117
Full Changelog: 2023-05-30...2023-06-28