Polars vs Pandas: A Real-World Performance Comparison (Part 1/2)
Recently, I decided to experiment with the Python library Polars at work. I’ve been hearing a lot about it, and I wanted to see how it compares to Pandas, which we currently use for our data preprocessing. Here’s what I learned! Why Polars? Polars has been trending in the data engineering world, and I was curious to see if it lived up to the hype. Plus, I’m a firm believer in learning by doing, so I thought this would be a great opportunity to get hands-on experience with a new tool....