How can we change a 3 minute load time to 1 second?
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As a Pandas🐼 user, the read_csv method might be very dear 💕to you.
But even with a lot of tuning, it will still be slow.
Let's make it faster!!!
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As a ML developer or Data Scientist, [re]loading data is something you do many many times a day!
Having long loading times can make experimentation annoying as everytime you do it, you'll "pay" the time-tax
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One trick to make loading faster is to use a faster file format!
Let's try the Feather file format.
It is a portable that uses the Arrow IPC format: arrow.apache.org/docs/python/ip…
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How can we do that?
Simple!
Pandas has a to_feather method on the data frame! Easy as that👍🏾
Later you can use the Pandas method read_feather!
Boom, 1.16s loading time!⚡️⚡️⚡️
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The first time you load your dataset, you can use all the tricks on my previous threads, like this one:
After that, you save in the feather format and keep using that for the rest of your work on the following days!
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Being efficient with slow tasks helps you spend more time on more interesting work!
Loading a dataset in 1s means that your line of thought won't be broken so often, helping keep you in the flow!
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