#510: 10 Polars Tools and Techniques To Level Up Your Data Science
Are you using Polars for your data science work? Maybe you've been sticking with the tried-and-true Pandas? There are many benefits to Polars directly of course. But you might not be aware of all the excellent tools and libraries that make Polars even better. Examples include Patito which combines Pydantic and Polars for data validation and polars_encryption which adds AES encryption to selected columns. We have Christopher Trudeau back on Talk Python To Me to tell us about his list of excellent libraries to power up your Polars game and we also talk a bit about his new Polars course.
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New Theme Song (Full-Length Download and backstory): talkpython.fm/blog
Polars for Power Users Course: training.talkpython.fm
Awesome Polars: github.com
Polars Visualization with Plotly: docs.pola.rs
Dataframely: github.com
Patito: github.com
polars_iptools: github.com
polars-fuzzy-match: github.com
Nucleo Fuzzy Matcher: github.com
polars-strsim: github.com
polars_encryption: github.com
polars-xdt: github.com
polars_ols: github.com
Least Mean Squares Filter in Signal Processing: www.geeksforgeeks.org
polars-pairing: github.com
Pairing Function: en.wikipedia.org
polars_list_utils: github.com
Harley Schema Helpers: tomburdge.github.io
Marimo Reactive Notebooks Episode: talkpython.fm
Marimo: marimo.io
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#509: GPU Programming in Pure Python
If you're looking to leverage the insane power of modern GPUs for data science and ML, you might think you'll need to use some low-level programming language such as C++. But the folks over at NVIDIA have been hard at work building Python SDKs which provide nearly native level of performance when doing Pythonic GPU programming. Bryce Adelstein Lelbach is here to tell us about programming your GPU in pure Python.
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Bryce Adelstein Lelbach on Twitter: @blelbach
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NVIDIA CUDA Python API: github.com
Numba (JIT Compiler for Python): numba.pydata.org
Applied Data Science Podcast: adspthepodcast.com
NVIDIA Accelerated Computing Hub: github.com
NVIDIA CUDA Python Math API Documentation: docs.nvidia.com
CUDA Cooperative Groups (CCCL): nvidia.github.io
Numba CUDA User Guide: nvidia.github.io
CUDA Python Core API: nvidia.github.io
Numba (JIT Compiler for Python): numba.pydata.org
NVIDIA’s First Desktop AI PC ($3,000): arstechnica.com
Google Colab: colab.research.google.com
Compiler Explorer (“Godbolt”): godbolt.org
CuPy: github.com
RAPIDS User Guide: docs.rapids.ai
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#508: Program Your Own Computer with Python
If you've heard the phrase "Automate the boring things" for Python, this episode starts with that idea and takes it to another level. We have Glyph back on the podcast to talk about "Programming YOUR computer with Python." We dive into a bunch of tools and frameworks and especially spend some time on integrating with existing platform APIs (e.g. macOS's BrowserKit and Window's COM APIs) to build desktop apps in Python that make you happier and more productive. Let's dive in!
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Glyph on Mastodon: @glyph@mastodon.social
Glyph on GitHub: github.com/glyph
Glyph's Conference Talk: LceLUPdIzRs: youtube.com
Notify Py: ms7m.github.io
Rumps: github.com
QuickMacHotkey: pypi.org
QuickMacApp: pypi.org
LM Studio: lmstudio.ai
Coolify: coolify.io
PyWin32: pypi.org
WinRT: pypi.org
PyObjC: pypi.org
PyObjC Documentation: pyobjc.readthedocs.io
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#507: Agentic AI Workflows with LangGraph
If you want to leverage the power of LLMs in your Python apps, you would be wise to consider an agentic framework. Agentic empowers the LLMs to use tools and take further action based on what it has learned at that point. And frameworks provide all the necessary building blocks to weave these into your apps with features like long-term memory and durable resumability. I'm excited to have Sydney Runkle back on the podcast to dive into building Python apps with LangChain and LangGraph.
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Sydney Runkle: linkedin.com
LangGraph: github.com
LangChain: langchain.com
LangGraph Studio: github.com
LangGraph (Web): langchain.com
LangGraph Tutorials Introduction: langchain-ai.github.io
How to Think About Agent Frameworks: blog.langchain.dev
Human in the Loop Concept: langchain-ai.github.io
GPT-4 Prompting Guide: cookbook.openai.com
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#506: ty: Astral's New Type Checker (Formerly Red-Knot)
The folks over at Astral have made some big-time impacts in the Python space with uv and ruff. They are back with another amazing project named ty. You may have known it as Red-Knot. But it's coming up on release time for the first version and with the release it comes with a new official name: ty. We have Charlie Marsh and Carl Meyer on the show to tell us all about this new project.
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Talk Python's Rock Solid Python: Type Hints & Modern Tools (Pydantic, FastAPI, and More) Course: training.talkpython.fm
Charlie Marsh on Twitter: @charliermarsh
Charlie Marsh on Mastodon: @charliermarsh
Carl Meyer: @carljm
ty on Github: github.com/astral-sh/ty
A Very Early Play with Astral’s Red Knot Static Type Checker: app.daily.dev
Will Red Knot be a drop-in replacement for mypy or pyright?: github.com
Hacker News Announcement: news.ycombinator.com
Early Explorations of Astral’s Red Knot Type Checker: pydevtools.com
Astral's Blog: astral.sh
Rust Analyzer Salsa Docs: docs.rs
Ruff Open Issues (label: red-knot): github.com
Ruff Types: types.ruff.rs
Ruff Docs (Astral): docs.astral.sh
uv Repository: github.com
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