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Running Apache Spark on a single node is slower than Pandas
“You can use spark at the single node scale as an alternative to pandas through the koalas interface, but you'll find that for many workloads, it's simply slower than pandas, which is not super impressive.”
Wes McKinney Feb 1, 2021 ▶ 24:30 Fireside Chat: Wes McKinney (Founder & CEO, Ursa Computing) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Over 90% of Python tabular data passes through Pandas
“I'd say, you know, nine, more than 90% of the data that's coming into structured data processing in, in the Python ecosystem, tabular data processing is passing through pandas at some point at some point in its lifetime.”
Wes McKinney Feb 1, 2021 ▶ 0:46 Fireside Chat: Wes McKinney (Founder & CEO, Ursa Computing) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pandas never had a significant corporate sponsor
“Pandas never really had a significant corporate sponsor who was you know putting in the majority of contributions. Like it really was a community project almost, you know from the get go.”
Wes McKinney Feb 1, 2021 ▶ 1:53 Fireside Chat: Wes McKinney (Founder & CEO, Ursa Computing) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
Wang: Anaconda pays core Pandas and scikit-learn maintainers full-time
“Our fix for that is we just pay developers. So, like, we have a couple of a couple of the core maintainers for Pandas are full-time developers, and they're just paid to work on Pandas, and same thing with scikit-learn.”
Peter Wang Oct 25, 2019 ▶ 1:02 Data Science Is A Literacy, Not A Job // Peter Wang, Anaconda (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Supported
Pandas has had well over 2,000 open-source contributors
“I know there've been well over 2000 contributors at this point.”
Wes McKinney Feb 1, 2021 ▶ 1:29 Fireside Chat: Wes McKinney (Founder & CEO, Ursa Computing) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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