eBook - ePub

Polars Cookbook

Name: Polars Cookbook
Author: Yuki Kakegawa

Over 60 practical recipes to transform, manipulate, and analyze your data using Python Polars 1.x

Yuki Kakegawa,

English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Polars Cookbook

Over 60 practical recipes to transform, manipulate, and analyze your data using Python Polars 1.x

Yuki Kakegawa,

About this book

Leverage Polars, a lightning-fast DataFrame library, to transform your Python-based data science projects with efficient data wrangling and manipulation

Key Features

Unlock the power of Python Polars for faster and more efficient data analysis workflows
Master the fundamentals of Python Polars with step-by-step recipes
Discover data manipulation techniques to apply across multiple data problems
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

The Polars Cookbook is a comprehensive, hands-on guide to Python Polars, one of the first resources dedicated to this powerful data processing library. Written by Yuki Kakegawa, a seasoned data analytics consultant who has worked with industry leaders like Microsoft and Stanford Health Care, this book offers targeted, real-world solutions to data processing, manipulation, and analysis challenges. The book also includes a foreword by Marco Gorelli, a core contributor to Polars, ensuring expert insights into Polars' applications. From installation to advanced data operations, you'll be guided through data manipulation, advanced querying, and performance optimization techniques. You'll learn to work with large datasets, conduct sophisticated transformations, leverage powerful features like chaining, and understand its caveats. This book also shows you how to integrate Polars with other Python libraries such as pandas, numpy, and PyArrow, and explore deployment strategies for both on-premises and cloud environments like AWS, BigQuery, GCS, Snowflake, and S3. With use cases spanning data engineering, time series analysis, statistical analysis, and machine learning, Polars Cookbook provides essential techniques for optimizing and securing your workflows. By the end of this book, you'll possess the skills to design scalable, efficient, and reliable data processing solutions with Polars.

What you will learn

Read from different data sources and write to various files and databases
Apply aggregations, window functions, and string manipulations
Perform common data tasks such as handling missing values and performing list and array operations
Discover how to reshape and tidy your data by pivoting, joining, and concatenating
Analyze your time series data in Python Polars
Create better workflows with testing and debugging

Who this book is for

This book is for data analysts, data scientists, and data engineers who want to learn how to use Polars in their workflows. Working knowledge of the Python programming language is required. Experience working with a DataFrame library such as pandas or PySpark will also be helpful.

]]>

Frequently asked questions

Yes, you can cancel anytime from the Subscription tab in your account settings on the Perlego website. Your subscription will stay active until the end of your current billing period. Learn how to cancel your subscription.

At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.

Perlego offers two plans: Essential and Complete

Essential is ideal for learners and professionals who enjoy exploring a wide range of subjects. Access the Essential Library with 800,000+ trusted titles and best-sellers across business, personal growth, and the humanities. Includes unlimited reading time and Standard Read Aloud voice.
Complete: Perfect for advanced learners and researchers needing full, unrestricted access. Unlock 1.4M+ books across hundreds of subjects, including academic and specialized titles. The Complete Plan also includes advanced features like Premium Read Aloud and Research Assistant.

Both plans are available with monthly, semester, or annual billing cycles.

We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.

Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.

Yes! You can use the Perlego app on both iOS or Android devices to read anytime, anywhere — even offline. Perfect for commutes or when you’re on the go.
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app.

Yes, you can access Polars Cookbook by Yuki Kakegawa in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Computer Science & Data Mining. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.