Wes McKinney - New Directions for Apache Arrow

Lander Analytics October 6, 2021
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New Directions for Apache Arrow by Wes McKinney Visit https://rstats.ai/nyr/ to learn more. Abstract: Wes McKinney shares an update about recent developments in Apache Arrow, the multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing. Wes introduces some new directions for the Arrow project and discusses why Ursa Computing, which he founded last year, has joined forces with BlazingSQL and the pioneers of RAPIDS and other open source projects to form Voltron Data. Bio: Wes McKinney is an open source software developer focusing on analytical computing. He created the Python pandas project and is a co-creator of Apache Arrow, his current focus. He authored two editions of the book Python for Data Analysis. Wes is a member of The Apache Software Foundation and also a PMC member for Apache Parquet. He is now the CTO of Voltron Data, a new startup working on accelerated computing technologies powered by Apache Arrow. Twitter: https://twitter.com/wesmckinn Presented at the 2021 New York R Conference (September 10, 2021)

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