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Exploring Datasets in Positronposit::conf(2025)2025-09-16
Positron ships a Data Explorer that actually handles massive tables — DuckDB powers billion‑row/backend queries and the UI works with millions of rows or…
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Retooling for a Smaller Data EraPyData Global 20242024-12-03
Argues that real progress is concrete: adoption of DuckDB and DataFusion as embeddable engines, a common memory format in Apache Arrow, and multi-backend APIs…
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Apache Arrow: High-Performance Columnar Data FrameworkVaccination Database Talks (Second Dose) 20212021-09-15
Apache Arrow presents a stable 1.0 interprocess protocol (declared mid‑2020) and a component toolbox that yields near-zero-copy interoperability: the C data…
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Keynote: Scalable Python We Can AffordRay Summit 20202020-09-30
Pandas often requires 10× RAM because data must be RAM resident and many algorithms remain single threaded and inefficient for strings; scaling by naively…
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Ursa Labs and Apache Arrow in 2019rstudio::conf 20192019-01-15
A not-for-profit development group called URSA labs forms to steward Apache Arrow work with sponsors like 2 Sigma and Nvidia and a distributed team of five…
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Ursa Labs and Apache Arrow in 2019PyData Miami 20192019-01-09
Ursa Labs forms as a nonprofit to fund Apache Arrow work with five full‑time engineers and a 2019 roadmap. Arrow defines a shared in‑memory tabular format used…
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Python Data Ecosystem: Thoughts on Building for the FuturePyData Berlin 20162016-05-20
Discussion centers on concrete work not platitudes: a C++11 library and bindings that implement a columnar in‑memory format called Arrow, a tiny file format…
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