In a recent post I showed how to use Polars in AWS Lambda using the smart_open library. There are a variety of ways that you can work with Polars in AWS Lambda, however. In this post we look at how...
Quickstart with Polars
This post was created while writing my Up & Running with Polars course. Check it out on Udemy with a half price discount Want to jump right into using Polars? I’ve released a quickstart ...
Inspecting a Polars query
This post was created while writing my Up & Running with Polars course. Check it out here with a free preview of the first chapters A great feature of Polars is its query optimiser that c...
Profiling a Polars query
This post was created while writing my Up & Running with Polars course. Check it out here with a free preview of the first chapters You can’t optimise your code if you don’t know where th...
ML pre-processing with Polars
This post was created while writing my Up & Running with Polars course. Check it out here with a free preview of the first chapters I think we’ll see a nice ML pre-processing library deve...
Data science 2025
I started using Polars and DuckDB in late 2021. It was immediately apparent to me that these libraries would soon be at the heart of the of data science ecosystem. Since then the popularity of the ...
Polars 🤝 Matplotlib
This post was created while writing my Up & Running with Polars course. Check it out here with a free preview of the first chapters Polars gets on well with matplotlib. To make a bar cha...
Polars & Huggingface datasets
This post was created while writing my Up & Running with Polars course. Check it out here with a free preview of the first chapters One consequence of the Apache Arrow era is that differe...
Polars on a diet
This post was created while writing my Up & Running with Polars course. Check it out here with a free preview of the first chapters Polars has a built in tool to go on a dtype diet. Call...
Polars up and running
This post was created while writing my Up & Running with Polars course. Check it out here with a free preview of the first chapters Sometimes the first step is the hardest, so I’ve made t...