What's new in pandas?

Talk

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Pandas finally reached a 1.0 release in early 2020. But, there is still a lot of development activity going on. This talk will give an overview of what’s happening in the latest releases of pandas and where we are heading to, and highlight some important milestones for the project achieved over the last year.

Speakers

Joris Van den Bossche

I am a core contributor to Pandas and Apache Arrow and maintainer of GeoPandas. I did a PhD at Ghent University and VITO in air quality research, worked at the Paris-Saclay Center for Data Science, and currently, I am a freelance software developer and teacher and working for Ursa Labs.

Tom Augspurger

Tom is a software engineer at Anaconda where he works on open-source libraries like pandas and Dask.