PyData Amsterdam 2024

Open Source Sprint: Narwhals
09-20, 13:25–16:25 (Europe/Amsterdam), Mondriaan

Narwhals is an extremely lightweight and extensible compatibility layer between dataframe libraries, and it needs your help! An open source sprint is the perfect opportunity to make your first contribution to open source. The core maintainers of the Narwhals package will prepare a list of easy and accessible first issues to get started with, and will be present in this session to guide you to make your first commit to the package. This is the perfect opportunity to give back to the Python ecosystem, while having some fun.


We would like to kindly ask you to read the contributing guide in advance - don't worry, it's not very long.

Marco is a core dev of pandas and Polars and works at Quansight Labs as Senior Software Engineer. He also consults and trains clients professionally on Polars. He has also written the first Polars Plugins Tutorial and has taught Polars Plugins to clients.

He has a background in Mathematics and holds an MSc from the University of Oxford, and was one of the prize winners in the M6 Forecasting Competition (2nd place overall Q1).

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Data and machine learning enthusiast with a soft spot for open-source software.
Driven by curiosity, eager self-learner, Kaggle Notebook Expert, Datathons enjoyer, PyData volunteer, currently engaged in Women in AI Mentorship, exploring and contributing to Open Source Land and building my Machine Learning portfolio.

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