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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....

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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....

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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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Aug 18, 2022

Scalable Pandas Meetup No. 4: Building Dataframes with Hamilton

Post-event Update (8/25): Watch the recording of the meetup here! ————————————————————————————- We’re really looking forward to our fourth Scalable Pandas Meetup! This meetup is the fourth in a series of conversations centered a...

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Aug 12, 2022

Why I Joined Ponder: Hazem Elmeleegy

Hazem Elmeleegy describes his background in computer science, and why he joined Ponder....

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Aug 9, 2022

Ponder at “Data Science on AWS” Meetup

In June 2022, Devin Petersohn (Ponder CTO) and Alejandro Herrera (Solution Architect at Ponder) presented on Modin at the "Data Science on AWS" Meetup. See below for the video!...

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Jul 29, 2022

Pandas Is Now As Popular As Python Was in 2016

In this post, we dig into a decade of Stack Overflow Developer Survey results, and learn that: Python’s popularity more than doubled between 2013 and 2022; people love Python now, but no more than before; pandas is now as popular as Python was in 2016; pandas has high adoption in the Python commun...

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Jul 26, 2022

Pandas vs. SQL – Part 3: Pandas Is More Flexible

This is the third 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 flexibility that makes it a great fit for data science and machine learning, over the relational mod...

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Jul 21, 2022

Scalable Pandas Meetup No. 3: A Modin Overview

Post-event Update (8/5): Watch the recording of the meetup here! ————————————————————————————- We’re really looking forward to our third Scalable Pandas Meetup! This meetup is the third in a series of conversations centered arou...

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