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(Ed Schofield) Dataframes are an abstraction that proven extremely useful for data analysis in dynamic languages like S, R, Python, and Julia. The Pandas package has been dominant in Python for around 15 years but its design is now showing its age. There is now a vibrant and messy ecosystem of potential disruptors to the status quo for data analysis tasks in Python.
This talk will help you make sense of the mess. It will give you a comprehensive review of the strengths and weaknesses of the challengers, including Polars, Ibis, Vaex, Modin, Dask, and the PySpark Pandas API (formerly known as Koalas). It will also review efforts to unify the PyData landscape such as Apache Arrow, the dataframe interchange protocol, Narwhals, and the Ibis project from the original author of Pandas, Wes McKinney.
pretalx.com/pycon-au-2024/talk/QTWAGZ
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Sun Nov 24 10:35:00 2024 at Eureka 2
(Ed Schofield) Dataframes are an abstraction that proven extremely useful for data analysis in dynamic languages like S, R, Python, and Julia. The Pandas package has been dominant in Python for around 15 years but its design is now showing its age. There is now a vibrant and messy ecosystem of potential disruptors to the status quo for data analysis tasks in Python.
This talk will help you make sense of the mess. It will give you a comprehensive review of the strengths and weaknesses of the challengers, including Polars, Ibis, Vaex, Modin, Dask, and the PySpark Pandas API (formerly known as Koalas). It will also review efforts to unify the PyData landscape such as Apache Arrow, the dataframe interchange protocol, Narwhals, and the Ibis project from the original author of Pandas, Wes McKinney.
pretalx.com/pycon-au-2024/talk/QTWAGZ
python, pycon, australia, programming, conference, technical, developers, panel, sessions, libraries, frameworks, community, sysadmins, students, education, data, science
Videos licensed as CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
PyCon AU is the national conference for the Python programming community, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers, sysadmins and operations folk, students, educators, scientists, statisticians, and many others besides, all with a love for working with Python.
Licensed as CC BY-NC-SA - creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Produced by Next Day Video Australia: https://nextdayvideo.com.au
Sun Nov 24 10:35:00 2024 at Eureka 2









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## The Problem
AI has a data crisis. Were running out of quality training data because the entire web has already been harvested by crawlers to train AI models — leading to the Token Crisis. What’s left? Synthetic data generated en masse - that’s bland, generic and unrepresentative of the world’s diversity. This data is also problematic for training models, as it can lead to model collapse. Meanwhile, quality datasets from diverse contributors sit unused in silos.
## The Solution
Mozilla Data Collective is a platform in the truest sense. It’s yours to stand on, and make of it what you will. Mozilla Data Collective works by allowing you to share your data, retain ownership of it, and control who uses it. Upload datasets from research, community collections or specialised corpora. Set your terms - who uses it, for what purpose, and what you get in return. Keep control by tracking who’s using your datasets.
## Why It Matters
Our vision is to encourage the creation of safe, responsible AI that works for _everyone_ - by helping communities to share authentic, ethical and diverse data - a stark contrast to models built by indiscriminately scraping the web and reproducing or synthesising its Anglocentric, white, male biases.
We want people and organisations - like you - to be able to create, curate and control your data, rather than have it harvested and scraped without your knowledge or consent.
Join Kathy Reid as she walks you through why better AI requires better data - and why better data requires collective, collaborative, co-created approaches: Mozilla Data Collective.
https://pretalx.com/pycon-au-2025/talk/ZFWMZ7/
python, pycon, australia, programming, conference, technical, developers, panel, sessions, libraries, frameworks, community, sysadmins, students, education, data, science
Videos licensed as CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
PyCon AU is the national conference for the Python programming community, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers, sysadmins and operations folk, students, educators, scientists, statisticians, and many others besides, all with a love for working with Python.
Licensed as CC BY-NC-SA - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Produced by Next Day Video Australia: https://nextdayvideo.com.au
Sun Sep 14 14:00:00 2025 at Ballroom 1 Your datasets, under your control: Introducing the Mozilla Data Collective](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rl7QvFqjXFA/mqdefault.jpg)
