Pragmatic AI Labs

Polars from Zero

Pragmatic AI Labs

Polars from Zero

Noah Gift
Alfredo Deza

Instructors: Noah Gift

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5 hours to complete
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

Recommended experience

5 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Configure and use the Polars Rust crate with the lazy and csv feature flags to build typed DataFrames over Apache Arrow memory

  • Apply Polars expressions to clean and aggregate the wine-ratings dataset, with documented null-handling, normalization, and predicate-filter rules

  • Build wine-pipeline, three Rust CLI binaries that realize a bronze, silver, gold medallion architecture over a shared SQLite database

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May 2026

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3 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 3 modules in this course

Polars in Rust over the Apache Arrow columnar memory layout, set against pandas as a reference. Cargo setup with the lazy and csv feature flags, the DataFrame and Series types, the col expression, CSV reading with header inference and schema overrides, and the eager versus lazy execution model with predicate and projection pushdown.

What's included

16 videos7 readings1 assignment

Apply Polars expressions to wine-ratings.csv. Detect and drop nulls with null_count and drop_nulls, normalize text with str.to_lowercase and str.strip_chars, filter by rating bands, sort with sort_by_exprs and SortMultipleOptions, group_by and agg for averages and counts, and join two frames with inner, left, and outer join types.

What's included

12 videos6 readings1 assignment

Wire the cleaning and aggregation primitives into wine-pipeline, three Rust CLI binaries that share a Cargo workspace and a single SQLite database. Bronze writes raw_wines from CSV with an ingested_at timestamp. Silver applies the cleaning contract and writes clean_wines. Gold filters by min-rating, groups by grape, and exports a top-10 leaderboard as gold_wines.csv and gold_wines.json.

What's included

11 videos7 readings1 assignment

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Noah Gift
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