pandas #251

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dami-moj
Jul 24, 2024
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dami-moj
Jul 24, 2024
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2021-11: ADOPT

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matt-heery
Aug 1, 2024
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## 2024-08: Retain

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AnthonyCody
Aug 1, 2024
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Polars? DuckDB?

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ThomasHepworth
Sep 20, 2024
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The ibis developers recently wrote up a discussion summarising why they're discontinuing support for pandas: https://ibis-project.org/posts/farewell-pandas/.

In short:

Performance (both runtime and memory overheads)
Eager vs lazy evaluation (pandas is eagerly evaluated)
Pandas data types are wonky (particularly pre 2.0.0)

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