- KDnuggets™ News 21:n19, May 19: Vaex: Pandas but 1000x faster; The Most In Demand Skills for Data Engineers in 2021 - May 19, 2021.
Vaex: Pandas but 1000x faster; Best Python Books for Beginners and Advanced Programmers; The Most In Demand Skills for Data Engineers in 2021; The next-generation of AutoML frameworks; and more.
Data Engineer, Python, Vaex

Vaex: Pandas but 1000x faster - May 17, 2021.
If you are working with big data, especially on your local machine, then learning the basics of Vaex, a Python library that enables the fast processing of large datasets, will provide you with a productive alternative to Pandas.
Big Data, Data Preprocessing, Pandas, Scalability, Vaex

Are You Still Using Pandas to Process Big Data in 2021? Here are two better options - Mar 1, 2021.
When its time to handle a lot of data -- so much that you are in the realm of Big Data -- what tools can you use to wrangle the data, especially in a notebook environment? Pandas doesn’t handle really Big Data very well, but two other libraries do. So, which one is better and faster?
Big Data, Dask, Data Preparation, Pandas, Python, Vaex