NEC's FireDucks Returns! Accelerating Pandas Applications

The Pandas library, being the top choice among Data Scientists, many legacy applications developed using this library related to data preparation are in high demand for optimization to reduce the performance cost, especially when being executed on the cloud. The existing high-performance pandas alternatives sometime compel a user to learn completely new API syntaxes, whereas some of the others demand paying an extra hardware cost for GPU, etc.
To address the same, we at NEC R&D Lab, have developed FireDucks, a solution that’s been crafted for the contemporary data professional who loves pandas and deals with voluminous and complex data on a regular basis. With the promise of highly compatible pandas APIs and the revved-up performance, FireDucks can serve the demands of this digital age and transform the arduous task of data wrangling into a more efficient and less taxing endeavor. It can be simply installed on any Linux system using pip. Please feel free to check out the website: [https://fireducks-dev.github.io](https://fireducks-dev.github.io/)

The approximate schedule is (all times Pacific):

7:00 - 7:10pm - Mingle while people login

7:10 - 7:15pm - Start Recording. Code Quiz. Introduction. Group Photo.

7:15pm and On - Guest Talks. Q&A. Maximum Zoom.

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