Will Ayd
Will Ayd is the author of the Pandas Cookbook, Third Edition, and has served as a maintainer of the pandas project since 2018. Will is also a Committer to the Apache Arrow project, and has helped improve countless more open source data libraries.
In his day job, Will helps clients in the Retail and Apparel spaces optimize cloud data platforms in AWS and GCP, while also providing strategy and training around the use of open source technology in enterprise settings.
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Data system interoperability remains a significant challenge in open source ecosystems, with high costs in development time and resources when moving data across complex infrastructures. The Apache Arrow project offers a standardized solution to reduce these integration challenges.
Will Ayd (Apache Arrow Committer and pandas maintainer) and Matt Topol (Apache Arrow PMC Member and author of "In Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow") will discuss how Apache Arrow is changing the data landscape. A brief overview of Arrow standards will be provided, while also reviewing real world implementations of where the Arrow specification has driven down the cost of data interoperability.
Lunchtime chat with data science authors, with some offering book giveaways and signing books!