Wes McKinney joins us to discuss the history and philosophy of pandas and Apache Arrow as well as his continued work in open source tools.\n\nIn this episode you will learn:\n\nHistory of pandas [7:29]\n\nThe trends of R and Python [23:33]\n\nPython for Data Analysis [25:58]\n\npandas updates and community [30:10]\n\nApache Arrow [41:50]\n\nVoltron Data [55:10]\n\nOrigin of Wes\u2019s project names [1:08:14]\n\nWes\u2019s favorite tools [1:09:46]\n\nAudience Q&A [1:15:34]\n\n\nAdditional materials: www.superdatascience.com/523