150x Faster Pandas using NVidia

Believe it or not NVIDIA is making Pandas 150x faster without source code changes.

What you need to do?

%load_ext cudf.pandas
import pandas as pd

Their RAPIDS library will automatically know if you’re running on GPU or CPU and speed up your processing.

You can try it here: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/12tCzP94zFG2BRduACucn5Q_OcX1TUKY3

Github Repo (7K stars): https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf

UPDATE:  It is now integrated directly in Google Colab! 🤩

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