Investigate using Ibis or Narwhals as common interface library to any DF backend
Open
experimental
feature
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 42
- Forks
- 18
- Avg merge
- 1m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 1
Description
https://ibis-project.org/ has various backends: Dask, pandas, Polars, and many more. But apparently, the pandas backend is so problematic to maintain that they have decided that [they will remove them](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41389806).
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reviewing the issue discussion and the linked Ibis project, then compare Ibis and Narwhals support for the dataframe backends used by mesa-frames. Done should be a documented, project-specific recommendation about whether either library can serve as a common interface and what adoption would require.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- pandas, python
- Domain
- backend, data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100