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What's your plan for redframes? It looks really new? I'm the co-author of O'Reilly's High Performance Python so I'm always on the lookout for pandas alternatives. Are you looking at speed implications too? Bigger-than-RAM use cases? "Easier than pandas" only (which, of course, is totally huge in its own right)?

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"Easier than pandas" is the most important consideration for right now! If pandas is "Jira", I consider redframes to be "Trello" (appropriate for most, but not all use cases).

I actually was inspired to build the library after teaching a one week intensive pandas course to a couple of Data Scientists @ a Fortune 500... (pandas is really hard for beginners!)

While performance and OOM aren't priorities right now, I'd love to one day replace the pandas "backend" with Arrow (or something else) once I nail the API :)

Ian, what are your thoughts on https://www.pola.rs/ ? I've used it for a few CSV tasks and I really liked the API

I interviewed author Ritchie Vink on my newsletter (NotANumber) some months back, he's smart and the library has a nice design. I still barely know anyone trying it, it did get a write up just recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32998040 On one of my recent Higher Performance training courses a hedge fund person said they'd tried it with mixed success - some things faster than Pandas, others more expensive on RAM. I'm hoping to have a play soon but have only lightly tinkered so far. The parallel-by-design nature is nice, but I think the API is still evolving rapidly making it harder to develop with.

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