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Mar 9, 2022

Announcing Ponder

We're excited to announce Ponder! Delivering Enterprise-ready Pandas to help data teams operate on data at scale with tools they know and love....

News

Feb 23, 2022

Lux 0.5 Release

It has been over a year since our first release of Lux. We continue to see awe-inspiring use cases of Lux for helping data scientists visualize their pandas dataframes with zero effort. If you are not familiar with Lux, you can read more about it here. Today, we’re excited to announce the rele...

News

Feb 15, 2022

Modin reaches 2.5M downloads!

Modin reached over 2.5M downloads on PyPI! 2.5M downloads would be an incredible feat for any open-source project, not to mention for a project that started as a small academic project only a few years ago! It has been an incredible journey seeing how Modin continues to help so many data scientists ...

News

Jan 27, 2022

Modin 0.13 Release

We’re excited to finally release Modin 0.13! Modin 0.13 contains significant updates including: revamped Modin documentation new 10-min quickstart guide to Modin support for pandas 1.4 improvements to XGBoost integration new benchmarks for groupby enhancement to Modin on OmniSci + many more! T...

News

Dec 10, 2021

Modin and Lux papers published in VLDB proceedings

Our work at Ponder started as research projects in the UC Berkeley RISE Lab, where we developed tools aimed at improving data science productivity. Our open-source projects are the result of many years of research and development in this space. We recently published two research papers in the Procee...

Events

Nov 2, 2021

Modin & Lux @ PyData Global

We are excited to share Modin and Lux with the community at PyData Global 2021! “PyData provides a forum for the international community of users and developers of data analysis tools to share ideas and learn from each other. The global PyData network promotes discussion of best practices, new...