Jeff Reback: pandas at a Crossroads, the Past, Present, and Future | PyData NYC 2022

Pandas appears to be a healthy, well maintained library that will continue to serve the data science community for many years to come. However, the strategy for Pandas is at a crossroads and the decisions we make about its future will have influence far beyond Two Sigma.
We'll learn about the history of pandas, from its inception as a data analysis library, to the explosive growth as an open source library. We’ll discuss how the growth of big data and big compute challenges panda’s capabilities and is a threat to its continued dominance in the market. Finally, we’ll talk about the crossroads; which paths we are considering at Twos Sigma, and how others can get involved.
Bio:
Jeff Reback
As a former quant Jeff Reback has much experience in building financial trading systems, using python and working with very large data. He has been a core committer to the pandas project since 2011, and has managed the project since 2013. Jeff is a Managing Director at Two Sigma, overseeing the research environment. Jeff holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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[@chriskeo392]

Pandas 2.0 just released

[@marco_gorelli]

Just the release candidate