You’ve probably used Narwhals without realizing it. It’s the compatibility layer helping apps and libraries like Plotly play nice with Pandas, Polars, Arrow, and more — while keeping computation native instead of converting everything to Pandas. In this episode, Marco Gorelli explains how his weekend experiment turned into essential ecosystem infrastructure and why data types, not APIs, are where interoperability gets tricky. Plus what it takes to build trust and community around an open-sour...
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You’ve probably used Narwhals without realizing it. It’s the compatibility layer helping apps and libraries like Plotly play nice with Pandas, Polars, Arrow, and more — while keeping computation native instead of converting everything to Pandas. In this episode, Marco Gorelli explains how his weekend experiment turned into essential ecosystem infrastructure and why data types, not APIs, are where interoperability gets tricky. Plus what it takes to build trust and community around an open-sour...
Wes McKinney: Part 1 — Building Pandas, Arrow, and a speedrunning legacy
The Test Set by Posit
23 minutes
6 months ago
Wes McKinney: Part 1 — Building Pandas, Arrow, and a speedrunning legacy
Wes McKinney’s fingerprints are all over the modern data stack — from inventing Pandas to co-creating Arrow. But before all that, Wes was organizing speedrun communities and hacking together better ways to wrangle datasets in finance. In this conversation, he shares his origin story and what makes good tools good. Stay tuned for part 2, coming soon. What’s Inside: How frustration with data work led Wes to build pandas (and leave a PhD)A nostalgic dive into the GoldenEye speedrunning sceneWhy ...
The Test Set by Posit
You’ve probably used Narwhals without realizing it. It’s the compatibility layer helping apps and libraries like Plotly play nice with Pandas, Polars, Arrow, and more — while keeping computation native instead of converting everything to Pandas. In this episode, Marco Gorelli explains how his weekend experiment turned into essential ecosystem infrastructure and why data types, not APIs, are where interoperability gets tricky. Plus what it takes to build trust and community around an open-sour...
