December 2024: DuckDB

The latest technology taking the data engineering world by storm is, fortunately, not some brain-bending map-reduce gobbletigook or whatnot. Nope, it is a delightfully simple technology, inspired by SQLite, but with super-fast analytic powers, flexible data sources, and a lovely, forgiving dialect of PostgreSQL. And it’s named for a duck.

Location: Innovation Hub

We meet in the Innovation Hub, a gorgeous new facility that’s part of the renovated Dayton Arcade complex.
Enter through the doors that face the Wright Stop Plaza bus hub.

Street parking is free in the evening. I usually park on Ludlow Street.

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if for any reason coming downtown doesn’t work for you (for instance, you’ve been exposed to COVID, or you’ve converted yourself to purely digital format and now exist as a set of cloud-hosted algorithms), we’ll be online as well!

Join us at 7 PM EDT on the PyFri Discord channel, discord.gg/9SgTh3T, and click on the General voice chat link. You may need to install the Discord desktop app rather than just using the web interface.