Micah, Just to say thanks so much for your comments (and also to Wes for some comments he offered which i've tried to address) - they have all very much helped my understanding (and prompted me to do some further reading). You're absolutely right about the C++ bindings, until you mentioned it I hadn't really understood this part.
I have done a bit more work to clarify things further and after bit more editing and a bit more reading I'll publish this soon (all remaining errors are of course my own). Thanks also to everyone working on the project - we're certainly starting to see significant benefits in the organisation I work for (UK government). Robin On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 07:26, Micah Kornfield <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Robin, > I took a quick skim and left a few notes it looks like a decent summary (I > don't have a working knowledge of Pandas so i can't comment on the accuracy > there). A few thoughts: > 1. This seems mostly C++ (and related bindings) focused for the most > part. It might be worth clarifying that there are other binding in various > states of maturity. > 2. The C++ Query Engine and Data frame library are still mostly only in > design phase (although compute kernels have seen a fair bit of progress > recently). > > Hope this helps. > > -Micah > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 12:05 PM Robin Linacre <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I work as a data engineer, and I'm very excited about Arrow and am keen >> to build more awareness amongst colleagues (I work for UK government). >> >> I've always struggled a bit to explain the relevance of Arrow to data >> engineers/scientists in their everyday work - so I've tried to put together >> a blog that will help colleagues and other readers 'get' why it's so >> important. >> >> I thought before publishing it I'd post the draft here to: >> - give the community the opportunity to veto it if you don't like it! >> (the intention is to try to support the project, not cause a problem) >> - get any comments to correct any misunderstandings. >> >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eyjl-jMpFyGcNCN1886zU44YmeSgNx7VJ8tNBxGP_R0/edit?usp=sharing >> >> Feel free to comment/edit the document - I have a copy elsewhere. >> If there are no objections, I would likely post on my personal blog and >> medium: >> https://www.robinlinacre.com/ and https://medium.com/@robin.linacre >> >> I appreciate people are busy so no worries if you'd prefer not to respond >> at all. >> >> Robin >> >
