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Comment by j1elo

It's cristal clear that this page has been written for people who already know what they are looking at; the first line of the first paragraph, far from describing the tool, is about some qualities of it: "Polars is written from the ground up with performance in mind"

And the rest follows the same line.

Anyone could ELI5 what this is and for what needs it is a good solution to use?

EDIT: So an alternative implementation of Pandas DataFrame. Google gave me [0] which explains:

> The pandas DataFrame is a structure that contains two-dimensional data and its corresponding labels. DataFrames are widely used in data science, machine learning, scientific computing, and many other data-intensive fields.

> DataFrames are similar to SQL tables or the spreadsheets that you work with in Excel or Calc. In many cases, DataFrames are faster, easier to use, and more powerful than tables or spreadsheets because they’re an integral part of the Python and NumPy ecosystems.

[0]: https://realpython.com/pandas-dataframe/

parent j1elo 2 years ago

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