Learn to clean, validate, and transform data for machine learning using Agentic tools with Polars, a fast, memory-efficient DataFrame library in Rust. You will take a raw, messy dataset and turn it into a documented, verified artifact: detecting missing values, inferring and checking schemas, catching drift between batches, applying declarative transformations, and building a bronze, silver and gold medallion pipeline that ends in Parquet. Along the way you practice the habit that makes agentic development safe: the agent proposes, the compiler checks that it builds, and you verify the result by running it. Designed for learners new to Rust; no prior Rust experience required.

Data Prep with Rust

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Beginner level
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8 hours to complete
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What you'll learn
Direct an AI coding agent to build a Rust and Polars data tool, and verify its work by running it
Infer and check schemas, and catch drift between data batches before it breaks something downstream
Build a bronze, silver and gold medallion pipeline and verify its Parquet output
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October 2026
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Taught in English
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