Merge pull request #19 from gjbex/development

Add polars notebook

Author: gjbex

source-code/README.md

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ to create it.  There is some material not covered in the presentation as well.
 * [`networkx`](networkx): illustration of using the networkx library for graph
   representation and algorithms.
 * [`pandas`](pandas): illustrations of using pandas and seaborn.
+* [`polars`](polars): Kllustrations of using polars.
 * [`regexes`](regexes): illustrations of using regular expressions for
   validation and information extraction from textual data.
 * [`seaborn`](seaborn): illustrations of using Seaborn to create plots.

source-code/polars/README.md

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+# Polars
+
+Polars is an alternative to pandas that is designed to have better performance.
+
+
+## What is it?
+
+1. `patient_data.ipynb`: Jupyter notebook that explores functional differences
+   between pandas and polars.  It replicates the notebook in the `pandas`
+   directory with the same name.
+1. `data`: Directory containing the data used in the notebook.