#480: Ahoy, Narwhals are bridging the data science APIs

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

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4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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If you work in data science, you definitely know about data frame libraries. Pandas is certainly the most popular, but there are others such as cuDF, Modin, Polars, Dask, and more. They are all similar but definitely not the same APIs and Polars is quite different. But here's the problem. If you want to write a library that is for users of more than one of these data frame frameworks, how do you do that? Or if you want to leave open the possibility of changing yours after the app is built, same problem. That's the problem that Narwhals solves. We have Marco Gorelli on the show to tell us all about it.

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0:00.0	If you work in data science, you definitely know about data frame libraries.
0:03.8	Handis is certainly the most popular, but there are others such as QDF, Moden, Pollers, Dask, and more.
0:10.9	They're all similar, but definitely not the same APIs, and Pollers is quite different.
0:15.3	But here's the problem.
0:16.5	If you want to write a library that is for users of more than one of these data frame frameworks,
0:21.7	how do you do that? Or if you want to leave open the possibility of changing yours after the app is built,
0:27.3	you got the same problem. Well, that's what Narwhals solves. We have Marco Gorelli on the show to tell us
0:33.3	all about Narwhals. This is Talk Python to Me. Episode 480 recorded September 10th,
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