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Quansight @quansight.com · 8h

🦄 Writing data science tools shouldn't mean wrestling with pandas, Polars, DuckDB compatibility!

Marco Gorelli shows how Narwhals lets you focus on YOUR problem, not dataframe differences.

Already powering Altair, Plotly, Marimo & more ✨

Watch the full talk from PyConDE PyData →

How Narwhals is silently bringing pandas, Polars, DuckDB, PyArrow, and more together

🔊 Recorded at PyCon DE & PyData 2025, April 25, 2025 https://2025.pycon.de/program/CPCNRZ/ 🎓 If you were writing a data science tool in 2015, you'd have ensured it supported pandas and then called…

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Quansight @quansight.com · 1d

Do you want to make your docs accessible but don't know where to start?

Smera Goel shows you exactly how - free tools, quick wins, and the accessibility work behind PyData Sphinx Theme.

This is the practical guide you need!

Watch the full talk from PyCon DE PyData → buff.ly/GAbTC4C

#a11y

A11y Need Is Love (But Accessible Docs Help Too)

🔊 Recorded at PyCon DE & PyData 2025, April 24, 2025 https://2025.pycon.de/program/WLZSEZ/ 🎓 Accessible documentation benefits everyone, from developers to end users. Speakers: Smera…

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Quansight @quansight.com · 2d

Ever wonder what's happening behind the scenes in NumPy, pandas, SciPy, and other tools you use daily?

The Quansight Quarterly brings you updates from the people building and maintaining the scientific Python ecosystem.

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Quansight @quansight.com · 3d

PyLadiesCon 2025 is happening December 5-7, and we couldn't be more excited to support it! 🌟

Multi-language, multi-timezone, and completely FREE. Whether you're presenting, volunteering, or attending, this is community-driven tech at its finest.

Learn more: buff.ly/5mbiCIY

#PyLadiesCon2025

Quansight @quansight.com · 4d

🎯 The Python community has achieved a major milestone with asyncio now scaling across multiple cores in Python 3.14. Kumar Aditya shares the journey of reimagining asyncio's internals for a thread-safe, lock-free architecture.

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Quansight @quansight.com · 7d

We're live! 🦄

Marco Gorelli is coding Narwhals right now. Jump in to watch, ask questions, and hang out with the community.

Join us 👉 here:

Narwhals development livestream

Narwhals is a lightweight compatibility layer between dataframe libraries (pandas, Polars, Modin, cuDF, PyArrow, and more coming soon!) - join us as we develop it -- chat, ask questions, or just…

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Quansight @quansight.com · 8d

"Communities can catch people at just the right moment, and each of us has the power to be that pivotal person for someone else."

Lysandros Nikolaou will share his journey at #PyConSweden!

Join him to hear how mentors, friends, and random emails shaped his path. 🐍

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Quansight @quansight.com · 9d

🔥 Marco Gorelli is going live this Friday to work on Narwhals. Come hang out, watch the magic happen, and ask questions about making your library work.
See you there! 🔔 buff.ly/znNjID8
#Narwhals #OpenSource #Pandas #Polars

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Quansight @quansight.com · 10d

Travis Oliphant shares the history of SciPy, NumPy, and scientific Python
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Quansight @quansight.com · 10d

Ralf Gommers gives an insider's view on NumPy's core
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Quansight @quansight.com · 10d

Marco Gorelli discusses the rise of Narwhals in open source
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Quansight @quansight.com · 10d

Athan Reines explores JavaScript's technical computing with stdlib -https://buff.ly/50WOdgF

An insider’s view on the heart of NumPy: a conversation with Ralf Gommers - Inspiring Computing

In this episode, I have a wonderful conversation with Ralf Gommers, a director of Quansight Labs, and he's a key contributor to NumPy. He shares his journey of how he started working on and…

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Quansight @quansight.com · 10d

Happy International Podcast Day! 🎙️
Celebrating with some amazing episodes featuring our @quansight team:
🎧 Athan Reines on stdlib
🎧 Marco Gorelli on Narwhals
🎧 Ralf Gommers on NumPy
🎧 Travis Oliphant on SciPy & scientific Python
Links 🧵👇
What's your favorite tech podcast? Share with us!

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Quansight @quansight.com · 14d

📬 Did you miss the latest Quansight Quarterly?
Don't let another issue pass you by!
Get insights on open source, innovation, and the latest from our team delivered straight to your inbox.
👉 Subscribe now: quansight.com/subscribe-to... #OpenSource #Newsletter

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Quansight @quansight.com · 16d

Python 3.14's free-threaded build just got 2-12x faster GC performance!
New optimizations available to the community:
✔️ Mark-alive phase
✔️Software pre-fetching
✔️Smarter GC triggers
The path to GIL-free Python is advancing!
Get the details from Neil Schemenauer in our latest blog:

Unlocking Performance in Python's Free-Threaded Future: GC Optimizations

A description of the performance optimizations made to the free-threaded garbage collector for Python 3.14.

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Quansight @quansight.com · 17d

🐍 We are excited to see Ralf Gommers representing the scientific Python community at PyData Paris next week! His keynote, "Big ideas shaping scientific Python," explores how innovation happens through collaboration between volunteers, companies, and institutions.
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Quansight @quansight.com · 21d

🐼 pandas continues to advance!

The new pd.col() syntax in pandas 3.0 makes data transformations cleaner and more predictable than lambda functions.

Marco Gorelli shows how expressions solve scoping issues while enabling more efficient method chaining.

💡 Discover more:

Expressions are coming to pandas!

`pd.col` will soon be a real thing!

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Quansight @quansight.com · 24d

A big shoutout to PyladiesCon for their amazing work! Quansight is incredibly proud to be a Partner Sponsor for #PyLadiesCon 2025. We believe in fostering an inclusive and global Python community, and this conference plays a vital role in that effort. Let's make it the best one yet!

pyladiescon.bsky.social @pyladiescon.bsky.social · 24d

🌟 Huge thanks to Quansight for supporting #PyLadiesCon 2025 as a Sponsor! 💜🐍

Your support helps us build an accessible, global conference that empowers Pythonistas everywhere.🌍✨

Want to sponsor too?
👉https://2025.conference.pyladies.com/en/sponsors/

#Python #PyLadies #PSF #WomenInTech #OpenSource

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Quansight @quansight.com · 28d

The latest blog post from Kumar Aditya explores the significant changes in Python 3.14 that improve the scalability of asyncio. This work empowers developers to run multiple event loops in parallel, leveraging multi-core systems like never before.
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Society of RSE @society-rse.org · 29d

Great keynote talk from Tania Allard on the importance of investing time and effort in the maintenance of key foundational software.

Thank you Tania 👏

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Quansight @quansight.com · Sep 10

Wheel variants now automatically deliver the right GPU-accelerated or CPU-optimized packages for your hardware setup. Michał Górny details the first six months of a collaboration that aims to change Python packaging to move beyond simple platform tags.

Read more: buff.ly/HUfXWcb

Python Wheels: from Tags to Variants

The story of how the Python Wheel Variant design was developed

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Quansight @quansight.com · Sep 9

🚀 What if citizens could independently verify environmental claims made by politicians and media?

@agriyakhetarp.al is exploring this question at #IndiaFOSS2025. His talk will showcase how in-browser FOSS tools empower citizens with data for environmental policy.

👉 fossunited.org/indiafoss/gu...

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Quansight @quansight.com · Sep 8

Essential conversations about research software sustainability 🤝

Tania Allard will contribute to the conversation at RSECon25 with her keynote "Paths for impactful software: or how to keep research and scientific software relevant for tomorrow."

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@society-rse.org

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Quansight @quansight.com · Sep 4

🎙️ Our founder, Travis Oliphant, joined Stack Overflow's podcast to discuss the heart of open source: community & collaboration.

From NumPy's creation to building sustainable open source - it's all about "Open-source is for the people, by the people"

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#NumPy #SciPy #Python

Open-source is for the people, by the people - Stack Overflow

Travis Oliphant, creator of NumPy and SciPy, joins Ryan to explore the development of Python as a data science tool, the evolution of these foundational libraries, and the importance of community and…

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Quansight @quansight.com · Sep 3

🏗️ Infrastructure wins that matter:

Isuru Fernando's breakdown of ABI3 conda support shows how "boring" backend improvements create massive downstream value.

Faster Python adoption, happier maintainers, lower costs - win-win-win!

Read the detailed post: buff.ly/J09DnBq

Support for ABI3 packages in conda!

See how Point72 teamed up with Quansight to fund support for ABI3 packages in the conda ecosystem.

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