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In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow
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In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow

by Matthew Topol
June 2022
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
8h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 3: Data Science with Apache Arrow

So far, we've covered the Apache Arrow format and how to read various types of data from local disks or cloud storage into Arrow-formatted memory, but if you aren't the one actually building tools and utilities for others to use, then what does this mean for you? You'll be able to benefit from things that people will build using Arrow, such as new fancy libraries, performance enhancements, and utilities. But, how can you materially change your workflow to get some of these improvements right now? That's what we're going to be covering in this chapter, specific examples of Arrow enhancing existing data science workflows and enabling new ones.

In this chapter, we'll look at the following topics:

  • How ...
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