In a world where Python is getting Rusty, even the industry giants are not immune from oxidation. Pandas has a Rust-based challenger, and I've put them head to head. Let's just say it might be time for a new king of the bears...

Check out the code:
https://github.com/isaacharrisholt/yo...

Resources:
Polars: https://pola.rs
NYC Taxi dataset: https://www.nyc.gov/site/tlc/about/tl...
IMDb dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/laksh...
Polars benchmarks: https://pola.rs/posts/benchmarks/

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:20 - Why Pandas has been essential
01:32 - Polars
02:32 - Performance
03:00 - NYC Taxi benchmarks
04:36 - IMDb benchmarks
04:58 - Industry standard benchmarks

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