The next Python Exchange is coming up!
Our Guest Panelist will be:
Gijs Burghoorn
“Diving into Parquet Read Optimization”
Parquet is an important file-format used in data science world. It provides many opportunities for query optimization and data pruning. Based on our experience optimizing the Polars Parquet reader, we look through how Parquet stores data, its uses and rediscover many of the reader optimizations.
About Our Guest
Gijs is a Software Engineer and OSS maintainer at Polars. He has Masters degree in Cybersecurity from Université Grenoble Alpes and has worked on hardware testing and simulation at the TU Delft. At Polars, he has spend time on improving the Parquet read and write performance.