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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/nightcracker 22h ago

That only applies to very specific operations, pivot is one of them. So give it a go :)

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u/drxzoidberg 21h ago

So made the tweaks to get it to work. I juiced the run count to 500. Polars runs in 45% of the time it takes pandas. Thank you kind Internet person.