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Super Data Science Podcast 2025

A podcast with Jon Krohn.

May 6, 2025 · 1 min · Thijs Nieuwdorp

Community Talk for Polars Meet-up #1

What we learned by converting a large codebase from Pandas to Polars.

April 3, 2025 · 1 min · Thijs Nieuwdorp

Why I'm Ditching poetry for uv

Where Have You Been All My Life? Let me paint you a familiar picture: You’re excited to start a new Python project. You git clone that fancy repo and you have to figure out how to install the python environment on your system. It can consist of installing the right python version, picking the right dependency manager to install everything and waiting 45 minutes for everything to install, only to run into yanked versions, or incompatibilities for your specific config. Enter uv - Astral’s answer to Python tooling fatigue. ...

January 17, 2025 · 4 min · Thijs Nieuwdorp

PyData NYC 2024 Talk

What we learned by converting a large codebase from Pandas to Polars.

November 8, 2024 · 1 min · Thijs Nieuwdorp

Python Polars: the Definitive Guide!

Together with Jeroen Janssens, I’m working on Python Polars: the Definitive Guide. You can follow the progress of the book on https://polarsguide.com. The LinkedIn announcement can be found here.

June 6, 2023 · 1 min · Thijs Nieuwdorp