Alex Monahan
Hello, I'm Alex! I am a forward deployed software engineer at MotherDuck and I write blogs and docs for the DuckDB Foundation. My background is Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, but I've decided I prefer working in data! I recently joined MotherDuck after 9 years at Intel. I started at Intel as an industrial engineer, later became a technical analyst, and then jumped into a data scientist role. Back in 2020 I discovered DuckDB while building an internal self service analytics platform. It was such a perfect fit that we quickly integrated it and I began using it in multiple projects. I also became one of DuckDB's biggest Twitter fans! I have been diving deeper into duck-themed databases ever since.
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DuckDB is a novel analytical data management system. DuckDB supports complex queries, has no external dependencies, and is deeply integrated into the Python ecosystem. Because DuckDB runs in the same process, no serialization or socket communication has to occur, making data transfer virtually instantaneous. For example, DuckDB can directly query Pandas data frames faster than Pandas itself. In our talk, we will describe the user values of DuckDB, and how it can be used to improve their day-to-day lives through automatic parallelization, efficient operators and out-of-core operations.