Linear models are a staple of data science and machine learning. They are simple to understand and quick to fit. With this great new Polars plugin you can now fit linear model - including Lasso and...

Polars can read and write files from S3. However, to do this Polars needs to authenticate into your AWS account. While there is a crude solution where we copy our AWS access key and secret key from...

I got a good question recently from a new Polars user: What is the difference between a Series and an expression in Polars? Well, a Series is a 1D data structure. An expression is a function that ...

There are differences between some important time series concepts in Pandas and Polars that you should know. In this post, to help you make the Pandas to Polars switch I talk through some of these ...

Getting started with Polars? This post shows you how to convert some familar Pandas commands to Polars. But it also tries to go beyond that to introduce you to some of the more fundamental differen...

In a recent post I set out the key ideas behind streaming mode in Polars. However, streaming is still a developing part of Polars and not all operations support streaming. I’d like to improve docu...

One major advantage of Polars over Pandas is that working with larger-than-memory datasets can be as easy as adding a single argument to a function call. However, streaming doesn’t work in all case...

Updated December 2023 This post was created while writing my Up & Running with Polars course. Check it out on Udemy with a 50% discount These days working in serverless environments with ...

How we do it So what does ChatGPT’s Advanced Data Analysis have installed? On Twitter last night I showed how you can get ChatGPT to install a python package like Polars from a wheel file. We do t...

Open AI used to have a product called Code Interpreter. Which was a name that didn’t make much sense because it doesn’t interpret code. Instead it’s a language model that can ingest CSVs and genera...