Oct 23, 2023 Snowflake has announced its intent to acquire Ponder.
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Aug 30, 2022
In a recently released article, Intel describes the benefits of Modin generally, and the Intel Distribution of Modin specifically. We share some excerpts....
Aug 24, 2022
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....
Aug 18, 2022
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....
Aug 12, 2022
Hazem Elmeleegy describes his background in computer science, and why he joined Ponder....
Jul 29, 2022
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...
Jul 26, 2022
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...
Jul 14, 2022
This is the second in a series of blog posts that contrast Pandas dataframes with databases (or equivalently, SQL). We compare Pandas vs. SQL on the first of three axes: conciseness. We discuss 10 operations that are much more straightforward in Pandas than in SQL, spanning data cleaning, machine le...
Jun 28, 2022
This is the first in a series of blog posts that contrast Pandas dataframes with databases (or equivalently, SQL). Both dataframes and databases are, in fact, old ideas, dating back multiple decades. Databases opt for scalability, robustness, and efficiency, while Pandas opts for versatility, flexib...
Apr 1, 2022
Ponder, the company behind Enterprise-Ready Pandas on Everything and the open source Python projects Modin and Lux, is pleased to announce their newest product line: Pandas on the Blockchain. With Pandas on the Blockchain, you can run your pandas workflows on the Blockchain. Ponder was founded on th...
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