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Oct 22, 2022

Scalable Pandas Meetup No. 6: Validate Your DataFrames Using Pandera

Post-event Update (10/27):Β Watch the recording of the meetupΒ here! β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”- We’re really looking forward to our sixth Scalable Pandas Meetup! What: Niels Bantilan (Chief ML Engineer at Union.ai) will give an introdu...

Articles

Oct 20, 2022

Scikit-Learn’s Transformers Now Output Pandas Dataframes!

Scikit-learn recently announced that transformers can output Pandas dataframes. In this article, we dig into the implications and talk about how this improves life for Pandas users. ...

News

Oct 6, 2022

Modin 0.16: Our “Sweet Sixteen” Release!

Modin version 0.16 is now available! Improvements include an upgrade to pandas 1.5, support for the latest version of Dask, and more!...

Events

Sep 15, 2022

Scalable Pandas Meetup No. 5: GPU Dataframe Library RAPIDS cuDF

Post-event Update (9/23):Β Watch the recording of the meetupΒ here! β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”- We’re really looking forward to our fifth Scalable Pandas Meetup! Pandas runs on CPUs, but with RAPIDS cuDF, you can get GPU speedups and st...

Events

Sep 14, 2022

From Prototype to Production with Modin: Six Highlights from a Data Exchange Interview

Ponder Cofounder and Modin creator Devin Petersohn speaks with Ben Lorica on The Data Exchange podcast about the origins of Modin, and Ponder's vision for productionizing pandas....

Articles

Sep 9, 2022

10X Faster Hugging Face with Modin

In this post, we show that Modin can speed up machine learning workflows by 10X or more, on tasks such as performing sentiment analysis with the Hugging Face Transformers library....

Articles

Aug 30, 2022

The Intel Distribution of Modin

In a recently released article, Intel describes the benefits of Modin generally, and the Intel Distribution of Modin specifically. We share some excerpts....

Articles

Aug 24, 2022

Professional Pandas: The Pandas Assign Method and Chaining

This is the first in a series of blog posts that teach how to write professional-quality pandas code. In this post, we discuss the pandas assign function, and how it can be used together with chaining to create clean, readable code....

Articles

Aug 18, 2022

Pandas vs. SQL – Part 4: Pandas Is More Convenient

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts that contrast Pandas dataframes with databases (or equivalently, SQL). In this post, we demonstrate how the Pandas dataframe data model provides additional convience that makes it a great fit for data science and machine learning....

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