polars

Introduction

In this lesson, we’ll learn about a powerful Python library called polars. It’s a data manipulation library implemented in Rust and designed to work efficiently with large datasets, offering a fast and flexible alternative to the classic pandas library. The polars library has also been shown to demonstrate significant speed improvements on pandas in data processing efficiency benchmarks, such as for Join operations.

The polars library is able to achieve these performance improvements due to the following reasons: ...