Wes McKinney
Pandas Creator
pandas
Apache Arrow
Biography
Wes McKinney created pandas, the essential Python data analysis library, and co-created Apache Arrow.
Daily Work
- Working on Apache Arrow
- Contributing to data tooling
- Speaking about data engineering
- Writing about data science
Challenges
“Data tools should be fast and expressive. pandas enabled a generation of data analysis, and Arrow takes it further.”
Impact
pandas powers data science in Python. Apache Arrow is becoming the standard for columnar data.