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Extending Pandas using Apache Arrow and Numba

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With the latest release of Pandas the ability to extend it with custom dtypes was introduced. Using Apache Arrow as the in-memory storage and Numba for fast, vectorized computations on these memory regions, it is possible to extend Pandas in pure Python while achieving the same performance of the built-in types. In the talk we implement a native string type as an example.

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