How to Move From pandas to Polars [Video]

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This is a guest post from Cheuk Ting Ho, a data scientist who contributes to multiple open-source libraries, such as pandas and Polars.

You’ve probably heard about Polars – it is now firmly in the spotlight in the data science community. 

Are you still using pandas and would like to try out Polars? Are you worried that it will take a lot of effort to migrate your projects from pandas to Polars? You might be concerned that Polars won’t be compatible with your existing pipeline or the other tools you are currently using.

Fear not! In this article, I will answer these questions so you can decide whether to migrate to using Polars or not. I will also provide some tips for those of you who have already decided to migrate.

Polars is known for its speed and security, as it is written in Rust and based on Apache Arrow. For details about Polars vs. …