Polars has a new lightweight plotting backend
by Marco Gorelli (Polars core developer)
With Polars 1.6 a new lightweight plotting engine was introduced to create plots without additional dependencies.
Wed, 4 Sept 2024Benchmarking energy usage and performance of Polars and pandas
by Ivano Malavolta and Karolina Bargieł
A research team of the VU Amsterdam published a paper benchmarking the energy usage and performance of pandas and Polars data analysis Python libraries.
Thu, 22 Aug 2024Complex Calculations vs. Polars Plugins - A Double River Case Study
by Isaac Robbins (Data Engineer) & Nelson Griffiths (Engineering & ML Lead) @ Double River Investments
Double River achieves 10x speedups and 50% memory reduction in their financial models utilizing Polars plugins.
Wed, 14 Aug 2024Hugging Face x Polars
by Polars Development Team
Polars now supports native reading from Hugging face datasets
Fri, 9 Aug 2024Polars in Aggregate: Improved I/O, Hugging Face support, and more
by Polars dev team
This edition covers improved support for Hive partitioning, right joins, Hugging Face integration and much more.
Thu, 25 Jul 2024Announcing Polars 1.0
by Ritchie Vink
We have released Python Polars 1.0. We are very excited to reach this milestone.
Mon, 1 Jul 2024