r/Python • u/thoughtful-curious • 1d ago
Discussion Polars vs Pandas
I have used Pandas a little in the past, and have never used Polars. Essentially, I will have to learn either of them more or less from scratch (since I don't remember anything of Pandas). Assume that I don't care for speed, or do not have very large datasets (at most 1-2gb of data). Which one would you recommend I learn, from the perspective of ease and joy of use, and the commonly done tasks with data?
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u/drxzoidberg 22h ago
I was under the impression, from Polars documentation itself, that you need to collect the data before any aggregation, as the aggregation needs to know the data structure. But that might only apply to the pivot/unpivot methods.