Modern Polars: an extensive side-by-side comparison of Polars and Pandas

• redframes

  10 295 1.4 Python

  General Purpose Data Manipulation Library

I'm not GP, but I find the pandas API incredibly inconsistent and difficult to remember how to do simple transformations. For example, it sometimes overloads operators because it doesn't use built in language features like lambdas. There are reasons for the inconsistency, but using the alternatives like R's tidyverse or Julia's DataFramess.jl is like night and day for me.

I found RedFrames [1] recently which wraps Pandas dataframes with a more consistent interface, it's probably what I'd use if I had to write data transformations that had to be compatible with Pandas.

[1] https://github.com/maxhumber/redframes

• dplyr

  40 4,665 7.1 R

  dplyr: A grammar of data manipulation

  

It really can't be said enough how pandas is a mess. It has way too much surface area and no common thread pulling it all together. This gets obvious when you work with better dataframe libs like dplyr [1] or DataFramesMeta [2]. I've worked on production systems with all of these libs, this is not gratuitous bashing.

[1] https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/

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• modin

  11 9,494 9.6 Python

  Modin: Scale your Pandas workflows by changing a single line of code

  

Yeah, tried Polars a couple of times: the API seems worse than Pandas to me too. eg the decision only to support autoincrementing integer indexes seems like it would make debugging "hmmm, that answer is wrong, what exactly did I select?" bugs much more annoying. Polars docs write "blazingly fast" all over them but I doubt that is a compelling point for people using single-node dataframe libraries. It isn't for me.

Modin (https://github.com/modin-project/modin) seems more promising at this point, particularly since a migration path for standing Pandas code is highly desirable.

• pandoc

  420 32,516 9.8 Haskell

  Universal markup converter

Not the author but it seems that the site was made using Quarto [1] which uses pandoc [2] behind the scenes for producing the final output. The pandoc website suggests EPUB is possible.

[1] https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/authoring/text-editor.ht...

[2] https://pandoc.org/

• tidypolars

  7 309 8.0 Python

  Tidy interface to polars

There’s a tidypolars package that appears to be well-maintained https://github.com/markfairbanks/tidypolars

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