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Joris Van den Bossche commented on ARROW-8679:
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[~michael.novitsky] how do you envision "support"? Or in which part of pyarrow
to you want to see it supported?
Eg when converting a pandas DataFrame with sparse columns to a pyarrow Table,
we could densify the sparse array (since Arrow has no support for sparse arrays
in its columnar format), but I am not sure this is what users would expect.
Support for conversion to one of the sparse tensors in pyarrow could indeed be
added.
> [Python] supporting pandas sparse series in pyarrow
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> Key: ARROW-8679
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8679
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Python
> Environment: ubuntu 16/18
> Reporter: Michael Novitsky
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 0.17.0
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> I've seen that Pandas sparse series was not supported in pyarrow since it was
> planned to be deprecated. In Pandas 1.0.1 they released a stable version of
> sparse array and as far as I know it is not planned to be deprecated anymore.
> Are you planning to support sparse series in next versions of pyarrow ?
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