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Mar 23, 2023

Resources / Tutorials & workshops

• Prise en main de Polars - A notebook tutorial in French that illustrates the main features of Polars by @romaintailhurat and @linogaliana. There is also an accompanying blog post .

Mar 22, 2023

Resources / Tutorials & workshops

• A Practical Comparison of Polars and Pandas - A tutorial that showcases several common operations in Pandas and Polars side by side to demonstrate how much easier Polars is by @FlorianWilhelm. There is also an accompanying Jupyter notebook (⭐42) available.

Mar 20, 2023

Libraries/Packages/Scripts / Scala/Java

• scala-polars for Scala and Java (⭐2) - Scala - Java scala-polars is a library for using Polars in Scala and Java projects by @chitralverma.

Mar 15, 2023

Resources / Tutorials & workshops

• Polars: um simples mas prático tutorial - Tutorial in the format of an ipynb notebook that illustrates several features of Polars in Portuguese by @barbosarafael. Associated github repository is here (⭐34).

Mar 13, 2023

Resources / Blog posts

• Polars vs Pandas — 4 key concept differences - An article that helps to understand key differences between Pandans and Polars Data Science libraries by @DataScienceDisciple.

Mar 08, 2023

Resources / Blog posts

• Why is Polars All The Rage? - An article that explains why Polars will become very popular by SeattleDataGuy and Daniel Beach.

Resources / Talks and videos

• Manipulación de Datos con Polars en python - A detailed tutorial video in Spanish that shows 20 Polars functions to perform 80% of the tasks of a data scientist by Naren Castellon.

Mar 06, 2023

Resources / Blog posts

• Discover the Power of Polars Library for Fast and Efficient Data Manipulation in Python - An article that quickly compares Polars to other data manipulation libraries by Morpheus.

Resources / Talks and videos

• Polars: The main alternative to pandas in Python!? ⏳ 57 min - A Polars tutorial series on Youtube by @martinbel. Notebooks and datasets used for the videos available in this github repo (⭐8).

• Polars: The Super Fast Dataframe Library for Python — Goodbye Pandas? - An article and a video ⏳ 19 min that explores some basic features of Polars by @ifrankandrade

Feb 27, 2023

Resources / Talks and videos

• Polars Introduction for Python with a 128GB Ryzen 24-core Benchmark vs Pandas ⏳ 12 min - A video that provides an introduction to Polars for Python by @jeffheaton. Notebook used for the video in this github repo (⭐164).

• Polars vs Pandas ⏳ 37 min - A detailed video on Youtube that compares Polars and Pandas by @hu-po.

Feb 25, 2023

Resources / Cheat Sheets

• Polars Cheat Sheet - A Polars Cheat Sheet by @FranzDiebold.

Resources / Talks and videos

• Expressive & fast dataframes in Python with polars ⏳ 28 min - A video that reviews some alternatives to Pandas for Python and then demonstrates some Polars features by Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez.

Feb 22, 2023

Resources / Blog posts

• Pandas vs Polars - A comparison on File I/O - A blog post that evaluates Polars and Pandas in terms of I/O performance and speed when handling large datasets by Wes Poulsen.

Feb 20, 2023

Resources / Blog posts

• Alternatives to Pandas: Python Polars - An article that explores the Python Polars module as an alternative to Pandas, comparing their similarities and differences and providing some examples by @JohnLockwood

Contributing / Talks and videos

• Damien Dotta (@ddotta) - Maintainer of Awesome Polars list

Feb 17, 2023

Official documentation

• Documentation - Official user guide for Python, Rust and R.

• Documentation for Python API - Official API Reference for Python.

• Documentation for Rust API - Official API Reference for Rust.

• Documentation for Node.js API - Official API Reference for Node.js.

• Documentation for R API - Official API Reference for R (WIP).

• Github: Polars Github Organization - Official Polars Github repository.

• Blog posts from Polars - Official blogs posts from Polars.

Libraries/Packages/Scripts / Python

• polars for Python (⭐15k) - Python polars package to use polars DataFrame from Python.

• tidypolars tidypolars python library built on top of polars library that gives access to methods and functions familiar to R tidyverse users.

Libraries/Packages/Scripts / Rust

• polars for Rust (⭐15k) - Rust polars crate to use polars DataFrame with Rust.

• GeoPolars Geopolars Rust crate that extends the Polars DataFrame library for use with geospatial data.

Libraries/Packages/Scripts / R

• rpolars for R (⭐137) - R rpolars package to use polars DataFrame from R.

Libraries/Packages/Scripts / Node.js

• nodejs-polars for Node.js (⭐93) - Node.js nodejs-polars package to use polars DataFrame from Node.js.

Resources / Tutorials & workshops

• Modern Polars - A side by side comparison between Polars and Pandas containing code in both frameworks by @kevinheavey.

Resources / Blog posts

• Using the Polars DataFrame Library - A blog post by Wei-Meng Lee to discover the basics of Polars and how it can be used in place of Pandas.

• Why Polars uses less memory than Pandas - A blog post by Itamar Turner-Trauring detailing some techniques to opptimize Pandas memory usage and see how Polars can provide an answer in some cases.

• Plodding with Polars in Python - A blog post by @amitrathore that introduces some basic features of Polars.

• Polars-lazy - A blog post by @ritchie46 and @jorgecarleitao that introduces Polars' lazy API in Rust.

• Series of posts on Polars - A series of blogpost on Polars usage with a lot of useful tricks and information by @braaannigan. Moreover, Liam also has a Data Analysis with Polars course on Udemy.

• Youtube videos about Polars - A series of short youtube videos about Polars by @braaannigan

Resources / Talks and videos

• Polars: Blazingly Fast DataFrames in Rust and Python ⏳ 37 min - Introduction to Polars by databricks.

• Polars: The Next Big Python Data Science Library... written in Rust? ⏳ 14 min - A short video tutorial to get started coding with Polars by @RobMulla.

• The Last Polars Dataframe vs. Pandas Dataframe Video You Should Ever See ⏳ 19 min - A video that compares Polars and Pandas data frames.

• The Best library for building Data Pipelines... ⏳ 12 min - A video that compares Pandas, Spark and Polars for working with data in Python by @RobMulla.

Follow : Official / Talks and videos

• pola-rs (@pola-rs) - Github organisation for Polars (Twitter: @DataPolars).

• Ritchie Vink (@ritchie46) - Author of Polars

• Stijn de Gooijer (@stinodego) - Member of Polars organisation

• Danny van Kooten (@dannyvankooten) - Member of Polars organisation

• Søren Havelund Welling (@sorhawell) - Member of Polars organisation

• Alexander Beedie (@alexander-beedie) - Contributor to Polars projects

• Marco Edward Gorelli (@MarcoGorelli ) - Contributor to Polars projects