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Wes McKinney
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Wes McKinney wesm

kenn-io

Founder @kenn-io. Created pandas, Ibis, Apache Arrow.

GitHub@wesmckinnWebsite
Influence93rank 5
Stars, own repos28.9k32 repos
Stars, 30 daysn/a
Followers17.1k59.2k on X

Best work

pydata-book Materials and IPython notebooks for "Python for Data Analysis" by Wes McKinney, published by O'Reilly Media 25.0k stars · Jupyter Notebook Source on GitHub
feather Feather: fast, interoperable binary data frame storage for Python, R, and more powered by Apache Arrow 2.8k stars · JavaScript Source on GitHub
pandas2 Design documents and code for the pandas 2.0 effort. 304 stars · Python Source on GitHub

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Timeline

  1. Most liked recent post on X706 likes, 282k views: “I think loops are bullshit”
  2. Busiest day on GitHub this year211 contributions in one day
  3. Launched moneyflow278 stars today
  4. Launched pandas2304 stars today
  5. Launched feather2.8k stars today
  6. Launched pydata-book25.0k stars today
  7. Launched vbench244 stars today
  8. Joined GitHub17.1k followers since