The Apache Arrow (https://arrow.apache.org/) project specifies a standardized language-independent columnar memory format for tabular data. It enables shared computational libraries, zero-copy shared memory, efficient (inter-process) communication without serialization overhead, etc. Nowadays, Apache Arrow is supported by many programming languages and projects, and is becoming the de facto standard for tabular data.

But what does that mean in practice? There is a growing set of tools in the Python bindings, PyArrow, and a growing number of projects that use (Py)Arrow to accelerate data interchange and actual data processing. This talk will give an overview of the recent developments both in Apache Arrow itself as how it is being adopted in the PyData ecosystem (and beyond) and can improve your day-to-day data analytics workflows.