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Data Analysis with Polars
Data Analysis with Polars

Data Analysis with Polars: Get up and running with Polars to perform effective data analysis with Rust

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  • Speed up your data transformations in Python and handle larger-than-memory datasets
  • Get up to speed with the Polars library, including its fundamentals and advanced data transformations
  • Apply Polars to five real-world business cases, including financial and marketing analysis
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Discover the power of Polars, the lightning-fast DataFrame library, for fast data manipulation and analysis. This comprehensive guide provides you with in-depth insights into Polars: its interface, how Polars works behind the scenes, and how to use it in practical applications. You'll start with the fundamentals of Polars, such as reading and writing files and databases, and transforming data. Next, you’ll progress to advanced topics such as window functions, time-series analysis, text transformations, processing larger-than-memory datasets, and testing data pipelines. You'll also learn how to leverage SQL with Polars. The second section of the book guides you through five case studies step by step, allowing you to apply your learning to business problems. Through the real-life case studies, you'll find out how to perform financial and marketing analyses, such as price-volume-mix analysis, market basket analysis, customer segmentation, product recommendations, and text analysis. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the knowledge and skills you need to advance your Python data analysis skills using Polars and take your career to the next level.

Who is this book for?

If you're a data analyst looking to analyze your data faster or analyze bigger datasets (or both), then this book is for you. Business analysts, data engineers, and data scientists will also benefit from this book. Basic knowledge of Python is necessary to get the most out of this book. Additionally, any previous experience with data analysis in Pandas, Spark, or SQL will be helpful.

What you will learn

  • Find out why Polars is faster and how it benefits from Arrow and Rust
  • Understand Polars query optimizations and the lazy API
  • Connect Polars to your files, databases, and data lakes
  • Discover how to transform, group, and combine data with parallel execution
  • Get up to speed with advanced data transformations, including window and array functions
  • Explore how to query Polars using SQL
  • Extend Polars functionality with custom functions and namespaces
  • Perform exploratory data analysis and visualization using Polars and Altair

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