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May 25, 2023

Ponder in Public Beta: Data Science in Your Data Warehouse

Ponder lets you run your Python data workflows (pandas, NumPy) directly in your data warehouse or database, and as of today, anyone can try Ponder for free. Get started in less than 5 minutes....

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May 3, 2023

Scalable Data Science with Ponder on DuckDB

Announcing Ponder on DuckDB! Ponder lets you run your data science workflows directly in your database. Now, with Ponder, you can speed up your pandas code by using our pandas API for DuckDB....

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Apr 11, 2023

Compilation of Hot Takes on Enterprise Pandas

Over the past few weeks, we shared a series of “hot takes” on enterprise pandas and how Ponder helps address some of these challenges. The post below is a compilation of our 12-day series on this topic. What is Ponder? Ponder lets you run pandas directly in your data warehouse. Data team...

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Mar 31, 2023

Build Scalable Data Pipelines with BigQuery, Prefect, and Ponder

Ponder lets you run pandas code directly in your data warehouse, and Prefect is one of the most popular data workflow orchestration tools. By combining Ponder and Prefect, data teams can simplify their data stack and accelerate their time to production....

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Mar 27, 2023

Visualizing Data in BigQuery Using Ponder

Data visualization is a key component of exploratory data analysis that is useful for data cleaning, identifying outliers and feature relationships, and so on. Interactive Python libraries like Matplotlib or Seaborn allow data scientists to draw fast insights, but when the data is stored in a cloud ...

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Mar 20, 2023

Secure and Scalable Healthcare Analytics in Python with Snowflake

A real-world healthcare analytics scenario of how to use Python and Ponder to analyze electronic health records directly in your data warehouse by writing pandas code....

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Mar 6, 2023

Big Data Is Dead… Long Live Big Data

A recent blog post proclaims "Big Data is Dead." I'm here to declare "not so fast!" We should learn to embrace — and admit the legitimate existence of — all sizes of data!...

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Mar 2, 2023

Why I Joined Ponder: Mahesh Vashishtha

Mahesh Vashistha describes his background in computer science, and why he joined Ponder....

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Feb 23, 2023

Run NumPy on Your Data Warehouse with Ponder!

Ponder now lets you run NumPy in your data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.)....