What Does Apache Arrow Unlock for Analytics? (w/ Wes McKinney)
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Wes McKinney is the creator of pandas, co-creator of Apache Arrow, and now Co-founder/CTO at Voltron Data.
In this conversation with Tristan and Julia, Wes takes us on a tour of the underlying guts, from hardware to data formats, of the data ecosystem.
What innovations, down to the hardware level, will stack to lead to significantly better performance for analytics workloads in the coming years?
To dig deeper on the Apache Arrow ecosystem, check out replays from their recent conference at https://thedatathread.com.
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