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TechCrunch Startup NewsThe startup behind open source tool Polars raises $21M from Accel; plus, ComplexChaos thinks AI can help people find common groundPolars, the Amsterdam-based company behind the popular open source project of the same name, has raised about $21 million in a Series A round led by Accel, with participation from Bain Capital Partners and angel investors. But while raising this kind of money is the dream of many developers, its creator Ritchie Vink didn’t set out to do so.
Also, making democracy work isn’t easy, as recent events have made clear. Some critics would argue that technology is making it worse. But one startup is hoping that AI could help bridge some differences instead of widen them...
2025-09-2908 min
AWS - Smart Business PodcastRitchie Vink (Polars) on the Rise of Polars: A Blazing-Fast Data Frame Library and its Journey to CommercializationThis episode features a discussion with Ritchie Vink, founder & CEO of Polars, alongside Jordan Kramsky from AWS, about the development and impact of the Polars data frame library. Ritchie explains how Polars addresses the limitations of traditional data processing tools by offering a multi-threaded, incredibly fast solution optimized for modern hardware. They discuss the business value of Polars, including reducing compute costs and improving developer iteration speed. Ritchie shares the bottom-up adoption story of Polars in the open-source community and his transition from a hobbyist developer to CEO. The conversation touches upon the challenges and importance of saying "no"...
2025-05-1434 min
AI StoriesPolars: Fast & Efficient Data Manipulation with Ritchie Vink #60Our guest today is Ritchie Vink, CEO & Founder of Polars: an open source data manipulation library known for being extremely fast. As of today, polars has over 32k stars on github. In our conversation, Ritchie first explains how Polar which started as a side project evolved to what it is today. We then discuss the differences between Polars and Pandas, why Polars is fast and optimised and dig into Polars cloud: a platform which manages the compute infrastructure, allowing users to focus solely on writing queries. If you enjoyed the episode, please leave a 5 star re...
2025-04-2442 min
Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn834: In Case You Missed It in October 2024Jon Krohn starts the month with his round-up of favorite clips from the previous month. Hear from Bradley Voytek, Natalie Monbiot, Luca Antiga, Chad Sanderson, and Ritchie Vink in conversations about the ongoing potential of AI. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/834Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.
2024-11-0844 min
R Weekly HighlightsIssue 2024-W43 HighlightsBringing tidy principles to a fundamental visualization for gene expressions, being on your best "behavior" for organizing your tests, and how data.table stacks up to DuckDB and polars for reshaping your data layouts.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)Exploring the tidyHeatmap R packageDon't Expect That "Function Works Correctly", Do This InsteadComparing data.table reshape to duckdb and polarsEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W43Supplement ResourcestidyHeatmap: Draw heatmap simply using a tidy data frame https://stemangiola.github.io/tidyHeatmap/Novel App knock-in mouse model...
2024-10-2349 min
Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn827: Polars: Past, Present and Future, with Polars Creator Ritchie VinkRitchie Vink, CEO and Co-Founder of Polars, Inc., speaks to Jon Krohn about the new achievements of Polars, an open-source library for data manipulation. This is the episode for any data scientist on the fence about using Polars, as it explains how Polars managed to make such improvements, the APIs and integration libraries that make it so versatile, and what’s next for this efficient library.This episode is brought to you by epic LinkedIn Learning instructor Keith McCormick, by Gurobi, the Decision Intelligence Leader, and by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference. Interested in...
2024-10-151h 13
Rustacean StationPolars with Ritchie Vink Allen Wyma talks with Ritchie Vink about his work on Polars, a DataFrame library written in Rust.
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Timestamps
[@00:00] - Meet Ritchie Vink - Creator of Polars
[@02:00] - What is a DataFrame?
[@05:19] - Arrow
[@07:26] - NumPy
[@11:31] - Polars vs Pandas
[@17:32] - Using Polars in app development
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2024-01-0643 min
Uncle DataPyCon LT 2023 | Ritchie Vink (Polars) and Marc Garcia (Pandas)Ritchie Vink - author of Polars, Marc Garcia - pandas core developer. But no, I didn't invoke the dataframe war in this talk. Was interesting to hear their perspectives on things, the future of dataframe landscape and much more. Not going to do any spoilers, so tune in!
2023-05-2329 min
Inspiring ComputingPolars - Lightning-fast DataFrame library for Rust and PythonIn this episode of Inspiring Computing we talked to Ritchie Vink was the author of polars. Polars is a Python package written in rust and anyone who is ever used pandas will for sure find this episode interesting, as polars has incredible speedups compared to pandas. But in order to do so, it is interesting to hear from , Ritchie, where he got his inspiration from, how did he go about creating such a powerful package and where is he actually going in the future? And this episode, he talks about some of the optimizations that he implemented.
2023-04-2554 min
Data Science at HomePolars: the fastest dataframe crate in Rust - with Ritchie Vink (Ep. 146)In this episode I speak with Ritchie Vink, the author of Polars, a crate that is the fastest dataframe library at date of speaking :) If you want to participate to an amazing Rust open source project, this is your change to collaborate to the official repository in the references.
References
https://github.com/ritchie46/polars
2021-04-0832 min
Data Science at HomePolars: the fastest dataframe crate in Rust - with Ritchie Vink (Ep. 146)In this episode I speak with Ritchie Vink, the author of Polars, a crate that is the fastest dataframe library at date of speaking :) If you want to participate to an amazing Rust open source project, this is your change to collaborate to the official repository in the references. Referenceshttps://github.com/ritchie46/polars This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit datascienceathome.substack.com
2021-04-0832 min
John Wants Answers (Audio)Dennis Ritchie and Occupy Wall StreetTopics are Dennis Ritchie and Occupy Wall Street. Guest Keith Stattenfield. Musical guest Casey Heney.
2011-11-1129 minJohn Wants AnswersDennis Ritchie and Occupy Wall StreetTopics are Dennis Ritchie and Occupy Wall Street. Guest Keith Stattenfield. Musical guest Casey Heney.
2011-11-1129 min