Brodie Vidrine
Brodie Vidrine is a software engineer working for NOAA's National Center for Environmental Information. Before working to modernize government software, Brodie spent 17 years writing code for Ascend Math, an online Math tutorial program.
Sessions
Data manipulation libraries like Polars allow us to analyze and process data much faster than with native Python, but that’s only true if you know how to use them properly. When the team working on NCEI's Global Summary of the Month first integrated Polars, they found it was actually slower than the original Java version. In this talk, we'll discuss how our team learned how to think about computing problems like spreadsheet programmers, increasing our products’ processing speed by over 80%. We’ll share tips for rewriting legacy code to take advantage of parallel processing. We’ll also cover how we created custom, pre-compiled functions with Numba when the business requirements were too complex for native Polars expressions.