Access
Mode
On-site
Location
Paris
Address
Le Village By CA – 55 rue la Boétie 75008 Paris, 75008 France
Language
French
Workshop
datacraft workshop: From Pandas to Polars
Industry, Research
16
Feb
2026
16:30
19:00
Paris
WORKSHOP – From Pandas to Polars
Francis Wolinski, Freelance AI and Data Science Expert
Pandas established the foundation for DataFrame manipulation in Python and remains a core tool in the daily workflow of data scientists.
Polars builds upon this legacy while shifting the paradigm: lazy execution, native parallelism, and optimized resource management.
Transitioning to Polars isn’t about abandoning Pandas; it’s about adopting a model better suited for modern data and ML workloads, performance constraints, and large-scale datasets.
Program
- Introduction: Polars vs. Pandas
- Hands-on practice using two datasets
- Data loading and manipulation
- Applying user-defined functions (UDFs)
Prerequisites: Python, familiarity with Pandas, personal laptop.