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Ever wonder what's happening behind the scenes in NumPy, pandas, SciPy, and other tools you use daily?

The Quansight Quarterly brings you updates from the people building and maintaining the scientific Python ecosystem.

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Python is for everyone, and the Python Software Foundation (PSF) is the organization behind Python, making this possible. 🌍

At Quansight, Python is central to several projects and initiatives, and we’re proud to support the PSF as a Participating Sponsor in 2026!

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December 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The future of scientific Python isn't built by individuals OR companies OR communities.
It's built by all three working together.

Ralf Gommers' #PyData Paris keynote is the story of NumPy 2.0, array types, and free-threaded Python, and the collaboration that made them real.
KEYNOTE Ralf Gommers - Big ideas shaping scientific Python: the quest for performance and usability
Behind every technical leap in scientific Python lies a human ecosystem of volunteers, companies, and institutions working in tension and collaboration. This keynote explores how innovation actually…
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December 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🔴 WE'RE LIVE NOW!

Narwhals development session with Marco Gorelli is underway!

From compatibility layers to real-world dataframe problems - it's all happening right now. Jump in and join the chat!

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#LiveNow #DataFrames #Python
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
📢 TOMORROW! Narwhals livestream with Marco Gorelli

The perfect Friday coding session to wrap up your week. Watch dataframe interoperability being built in real-time, ask questions, and learn from the pro.
⏰ Dec 12, 3-5 PM UTC

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#OpenSource #Narwhals
December 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Throwback to Adopt AI - Grand Palais

Ralf Gommers represented Quansight at :probabl.'s Probability 1.0 program. He presented on supply chain security over both days & connected with brilliant folks across the Python/AI ecosystem.

Open source thrives on communities like these.

#Python #Community
December 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The scientific Python community is building amazing things. Stay connected with ecosystem updates, stories from contributors, and what's happening across NumPy, Jupyter, CPython, and beyond.

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December 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Get ready, PyData community! Don't miss the deep dive into sparse computing at PyData Global 2025. Mateusz Sokół from Quansight and Willow Ahrens from Georgia Tech are presenting their work on PyData/Sparse and the novel Finch compiler. buff.ly/mT7oUGn
December 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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This work brings CEP 16 to conda and shows what collaboration across the community can achieve.
Huge thanks to @conda-forge.org, @prefix.dev @quansight.com @quantstack.bsky.social and @anacondainc.bsky.social for making this possible. ❤️
December 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We’re happy to support the Python Software Foundation (PSF) as a 2026 Participating Sponsor! ✨
PSF works to advance the Python language and global community, goals that align with our mission of open source sustainability.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Marco Gorelli's talk on unifying Polars, DuckDB, PyArrow & pandas with Narwhals is #10 on the year's most-watched Python talks! 🚀
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If you're working with dataframes across different backends, this one's a must-watch.

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Marco Gorelli - How Narwhals brings Polars, DuckDB, PyArrow, & pandas together | PyData London 25
www.pydata.org Polars, DuckDB, PySpark, PyArrow, pandas, cuDF: how Narwhals has brought them all together! Suppose you want to write a data science tool to do feature engineering. Your…
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December 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We are excited to support PyLadiesCon 2025 this week! This conference creates real opportunity; welcoming first-time speakers, supporting multiple languages, and building connections across the global Python community.

Dec 5-7 | FREE & online

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#PyLadiesCon #WomenInTech
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
From "baby's first commit" to shipping CI improvements! 🎯

Britney Whittington's summer at Quansight resulted in a thread-safe Numpy test suite, crucial work as Python 3.14t brings free-threaded builds to the ecosystem.

Full story: buff.ly/subIhwi

#Python #NumPy #OpenSource
Exploring & Improving the Thread Safety of NumPy's Test Suite
With the release of free-threaded builds of Python, it's more important than ever to ensure Python code is thread-safe. Here I detail my journey making the NumPy test suite thread-safe over the…
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November 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"You don't have to submit the perfect solution. Make a start, and the community runs with it."

Quansight intern Michèle Pettinato shares how the Narwhals study group helped her build the library's first plugin, narwhals-daft.

Read Michèle's full post: buff.ly/6GBiWNk
Creating a daft plugin for the Narwhals library
On doing an open source internship & how we created a plugin for daft
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November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
What if your library could support Pandas, Polars, PyArrow, and DuckDB without choosing?

Marco Gorelli walks through how Narwhals enables this and why the ecosystem benefits when tools are interoperable.

Excellent PyData Berlin session:
Narwhals: enabling universal dataframe support
🔊 Recorded at PyData Berlin 2025, https://2025.pycon.de/program/JKEHMH/ 🎓 How Narwhals enables seamless dataframe interoperability across Pandas, Polars, PyArrow, DuckDB & more—with zero…
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November 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Next week at Adopt AI in Paris:

Ralf Gommers will be speaking on both days about the latest in Python packaging and how that relates to deploying AI environments for R&D and production.

Find him in the booth of our partners @probabl.ai
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November 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🎵 "Singing in the ocean, causing a commotion" 🎶 Join Marco Gorelli as he brings harmony to the dataframe ecosystem with Narwhals. Live coding starts soon! buff.ly/o4L9Bom #Python #Narwhals #DataScience
Narwhals development livestream
Narwhals is a lightweight compatibility layer between dataframe libraries (pandas, Polars, Modin, cuDF, PyArrow, and more coming soon!) - join us as we develop it -- chat, ask questions, or just…
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November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Why do we need libraries like FlexiBLAS?

Michał Górny's latest blog post explains how multiplexing libraries solve the API/ABI compatibility puzzle in BLAS/LAPACK packaging, making life easier for users, developers, and distributions alike.

Learn how it all fits together: buff.ly/wo861po
BLAS/LAPACK packaging
An overview of differences between BLAS / LAPACK implementations and their packaging.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The Jupyter Foundation has accepted 4 proposals from Quansight in the first round of Jupyter Community Funding proposals.
Shoutout to Michał Krassowski, Darshan Poudel, & Tania Allard for their work on these proposals focused on testing, maintenance tooling, & developer experience.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The open source community keeps achieving incredible things, new features, solved challenges, and collaborative breakthroughs.

Celebrate these wins with us. Get the Quansight Quarterly in your inbox.

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November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Python community thrives on diverse perspectives. That's why we're backing PyLadiesCon 2025 as a Partner Sponsor.

6 languages 🌍
Talks, panels, sprints & workshops 💻
FREE online event ✨

Mark your calendar: Dec 5-7
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#PyLadies #PythonCommunity
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Summer intern, Britney Whittington, spent 3 months making NumPy's test suite thread-safe, working alongside mentors Nathan Goldbaum and Lysandros Nikolaou.

Read Britney's detailed breakdown: buff.ly/xbOcVLI
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Looking forward to what emerges from PyData Seattle 2025 this week! We are thrilled to support this gathering as a Diamond Sponsor. If you're attending, we hope you have inspiring conversations and make valuable connections. buff.ly/7mHxHCA
November 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Open source thrives on collaboration! 🌊

Our summer intern, Michele Pettinato, shares how the Narwhals study group helped her build narwhals-daft, a plugin that lets you pass daft dataframes to libraries like Plotly with zero code changes.

Read Michèle's story: buff.ly/9mlgqmf
Creating a daft plugin for the Narwhals library
On doing an open source internship & how we created a plugin for daft
labs.quansight.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🤝 The best code is built together! Join Marco Gorelli now as he develops Narwhals live.

Share your ideas, ask questions, and help shape the future of dataframe compatibility.

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#PythonCommunity #OpenSource
October 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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We are hiring!

@quansight.com is looking for a Senior Engineer for Python/C/C++ Packaging 📦. If you have dabbled with @python.org wheels, @conda.org packages, and the like, get in touch!

You can apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io/quansight/jo...
Senior Engineer Python/C/C++ Packaging
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October 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM