Talks & Media

Past Talks & Media
#118
PodcastData Talks on the Rocks
Remote · Feb 2026
Python Was Built for Humans. AI Just Changed Everything.

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#117
PodcastThe Test Set (Posit) (Co-host)
Remote · Feb 2026
Alenka Frim: What yoga teaches us about discipline and collaboration in data science

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#116
PodcastThe Test Set (Posit) (Co-host)
Remote · Jan 2026
Emily Riederer: Column selectors, data quality, and learning in public

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#115
PodcastThe Test Set (Posit) (Co-host)
Remote · Jan 2026
Rebecca Barter: Persistent learning, tool building, and ‘Will code even exist?’

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#114
PodcastData Masters Podcast (Tamr)
Remote · Jan 2026
How Open Source, Python and AI Are Shaping the Data Future

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#113
PodcastThe Test Set (Posit) (Co-host)
Remote · Dec 2025
Marco Gorelli: Narwhals, ecosystem glue, and the value of boring work

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#112
PodcastThe Test Set (Posit) (Co-host)
Remote · Dec 2025
Kelly Bodwin: Quarto hacks, AI in the classroom, and why R should stay weird

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#111
PodcastTech on the Rocks
Remote · Dec 2025
From pandas to Arrow: The Future of Data Infrastructure

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#110
PodcastThe Test Set (Posit) (Co-host)
Remote · Nov 2025
James Blair Part 2: Solutions engineering, critical thinking, and staying human

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#109
PodcastThe Test Set (Posit) (Co-host)
Remote · Nov 2025
James Blair Part 1: Portfolios, practice, and staying curious

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#108
PodcastThe Test Set (Posit) (Co-host)
Remote · Oct 2025
Julia Silge Part 2: Glue work, licensing, and open source in the age of LLMs

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#107
TalkEarl UK 2025
Brighton, UK · Oct 2025
Building Data Science Tools in an AI-Native World

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#106
PodcastThe Test Set (Posit) (Co-host)
Remote · Oct 2025
Julia Silge Part 1: Positron, pineapple pizza, and the art of iteration

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#105
PodcastThe Test Set (Posit) (Co-host)
Remote · Sep 2025
Michael Chow: From psychology and Python to constrained creativity

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#104
TalkSmall Data SF
San Francisco, CA · Sep 2025
Retooling for a Smaller Data Era
#103
Talkposit::conf(2025)
Seattle, WA · Sep 2025
Exploring Datasets in Positron

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#102
InterviewPretty Powerful Pandas
Remote · Sep 2025
Interview with Wes McKinney

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#101
PodcastThe Test Set (Posit) (Co-host)
Remote · Aug 2025
Roger Peng: Impact takes time, and it’s totally worth it

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#100
PodcastThe Test Set (Posit) (Co-host)
Remote · Aug 2025
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel: Teaching in the AI era and keeping students engaged

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#99
PodcastThe Test Set (Posit)
Remote · Jul 2025
Wes McKinney Part 2: Funding the Future of Open Source

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#98
PodcastThe Test Set (Posit)
Remote · Jul 2025
Wes McKinney Part 1: Building Pandas, Arrow, and a Speedrunning Legacy

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#97
PodcastDealMakers
Remote · Apr 2025
Raising $110 Million for Open-Source Data Analytics

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#96
TalkPyData Global 2024
Remote · Dec 2024
Retooling for a Smaller Data Era

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#95
PodcastTalk Python To Me
Remote · May 2024
Episode #462: Pandas and Beyond

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#94
TalkData Council Austin 2024
Austin, TX · Mar 2024
The Future Roadmap for the Composable Data Stack

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#93
PodcastKen’s Nearest Neighbors
Remote · Mar 2024
Episode #184: The Future of Open Source

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#92
PodcastReal Python Podcast
Remote · Feb 2024
Episode #194: Improving the Data Stack & Composable Systems

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#91
PodcastData Science Hangout
Remote · Jan 2025
Guest appearance with Rachael Dempsey

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#90
TalkNYC R Conference
New York, NY · Jul 2023
#89
PodcastData Engineering Podcast
Remote · Nov 2022
Episode #346: Supporting the Arrow Ecosystem at Voltron Data

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#88
InterviewG-Research Distinguished Speaker Series
Remote · Mar 2022
An Interview with Wes McKinney

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#87
TalkNew York R Conference
New York, NY · Sep 2021
New Directions for Apache Arrow

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#86
InterviewData Driven NYC
Remote · Jan 2021
Fireside Chat with Matt Turck

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#85
KeynoteRay Summit
Remote · May 2020
Scalable Python We Can Afford

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#84
TalkNYC R Conference
New York, NY · May 2020
#83
TalkScaledML
Mountain View, CA · Feb 2020
Apache Arrow: Present and Future
#82
TalkPyCon Colombia
Medellín, Colombia · Feb 2020
Keynote: Python for Data Analysis: Past, Present, and Future

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#81
TalkOmniSci Converge
Mountain View, CA · Oct 2019
#80
TalkNYC R Conference
New York, NY · May 2019
Apache Arrow: Leveling Up the Data Science Stack

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#79
PodcastPodcast.__init__
Remote · Mar 2019
Episode #203: Career in Python for Data Analysis

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#78
TalkPyData Miami
Miami, FL · Jan 2019
Ursa Labs and Apache Arrow in 2019

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#77
PodcastDataFramed (DataCamp)
Remote · Nov 2018
Episode #49: Data Science Tool Building

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#76
PodcastData Journeys
Remote · Nov 2018
Episode #23: The Creator of Pandas

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#75
TalkCrunch Conference
Budapest, Hungary · Oct 2018
Apache Arrow: Cross-language development platform for in-memory data
#74
TalkPyCon DE / PyData Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe, Germany · Oct 2018
Keynote: Looking Backward, Looking Forward

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#73
TalkDataEngConf Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain · Sep 2018
Apache Arrow: Cross-language development platform for in-memory data

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#72
TalkSciPy
Austin, TX · Jul 2018
Apache Arrow: Cross-language development platform for in-memory data

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#71
TalkPyCon Thailand
Bangkok, Thailand · Jun 2018
Keynote: Modern Open Source: Challenges and Opportunities

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#70
TalkDomino Rev
San Francisco, CA · May 2018
Advancing Data Science Through Open Source

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#69
TalkNYC R Conference
New York, NY · Apr 2018
Apache Arrow: Cross-language development platform for in-memory data

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#68
TalkAnacondaCon
Austin, TX · Apr 2018
Apache Arrow: Cross-Language Development Platform for In-Memory Analytics
#67
TalkRice Data Science Conference
Houston, TX · Oct 2017
Shared Infrastructure for Data Science
#66
TalkJupyterCon
New York, NY · Aug 2017
Keynote: Data Science Without Borders

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#65
TalkNYC R Conference
New York, NY · Apr 2017
Toward Interoperable DataFrames
#64
TalkScaledML
Stanford, CA · Mar 2017
Memory Interoperability for Analytics and Machine Learning

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#63
TalkNewsweek AI / Data Science Conference: Capital Markets
London, UK · Mar 2017
Raising the Tides: Open Source Analytics for Data Science

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#62
TalkSpark Summit East
Boston, MA · Feb 2017
Improving Python and Spark (PySpark) Performance and Interoperability

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#61
TalkDataEngConf
New York, NY · Nov 2016
Python Data Wrangling: Preparing for the Future
#60
TalkPyCon HK
Hong Kong, China · Oct 2016
Python Data Wrangling: Preparing for the Future

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#59
TalkPyCon APAC
Seoul, South Korea · Aug 2016
Keynote

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#58
TalkData Science Summit
San Francisco, CA · Jul 2016
Advancing the PyData stack with Apache Arrow
#57
TalkSpark Summit West
San Francisco, CA · Jun 2016
High Performance Python on Spark

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#56
TalkPyData Berlin
Berlin, Germany · May 2016
Keynote: Python Data Ecosystem, Thoughts on Building for the Future

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#55
TalkNYC R Conference
New York, NY · Apr 2016
Improving Data Interoperability in Python and R

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#54
TalkSF Big Analytics Meetup
San Francisco, CA · Apr 2016
Next-generated Python Big Data Tools, powered by Apache Arrow

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#53
TalkStrata-Hadoop World
San Jose, CA · Mar 2016
Apache Arrow

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#52
TalkNYC Python Meetup
New York, NY · Feb 2016
Enabling Python to be a Better Big Data Citizen (with Apache Arrow)

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#51
TalkSF Python Meetup
San Francisco, CA · Feb 2016
Ibis and the Python data ecosystem
#50
TalkStrata-Hadoop World Singapore
Singapore · Dec 2015
Scaling the Python data experience
#49
TalkODSC West
San Francisco, CA · Nov 2015
Ibis: Scalable Python Analytics on Hadoop and SQL Engines
#48
TalkData Summit at Web Summit
Dublin, Ireland · Nov 2015
Data Tools and the Data Scientist Shortage

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#47
TalkSF Data Mining Meetup
San Francisco, CA · Oct 2015
Ibis: Scaling Python Analytics on Hadoop and Impala

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#46
TalkBudapest BI Forum
Budapest, Hungary · Oct 2015
Ibis: Productive Python Analytics at Scale
#45
TalkStrata-Hadoop World
New York, NY · Sep 2015
Scaling Python analytics on Impala
#44
TalkNYC Python Meetup
New York, NY · Sep 2015
Ibis: Scaling Python Analytics on Hadoop and Impala

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#43
TalkData Science Summit
San Francisco, CA · Jul 2015
Ibis: Scaling the Python Data Experience

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#42
TalkSciPy 2015
Austin, TX · Jul 2015
Keynote: My Data Journey with Python

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#41
TalkOpen Data Science Conference
Boston, MA · May 2015
DataFrames: The Extended Cut

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#40
TalkNew York R Conference
New York, NY · Apr 2015
DataFrames: The Good, Bad, and Ugly

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#39
TalkData^3
Minneapolis, MN · Mar 2015
An [Incomplete] Data Tools Landscape for Hackers in 2015

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#38
TalkStrata-Hadoop World
San Jose, CA · Feb 2015
Analytics Beyond the Basics with pandas and SQL
#37
TalkData Day Texas
Austin, TX · Jan 2015
PyData: The Next Generation

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#36
TalkStrata-Hadoop World
New York, NY · Oct 2014
New and Upcoming Features in Pandas
#35
TalkGraphLab Conference
San Francisco, CA · Jul 2014

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#34
TalkPyCon APAC
Taipei, Taiwan · May 2014
Keynote

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#33
TalkPyData SV
Menlo Park, CA · May 2014
DataPad: Python-powered Business Intelligence

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#32
TalkStrata
Santa Clara, CA · Feb 2014
The Last Mile: Challenges and Opportunities in Data Tools
#31
TalkPyData NYC
New York, NY · Nov 2013
Practical Medium Data Analytics in Python (10 things I hate about pandas)

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#30
TalkStrata-Hadoop World
New York, NY · Oct 2013
Building Better Analytics Workflows

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#29
TalkPyCon Singapore
Singapore · Jun 2013
Keynote

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#28
TalkUberData
San Francisco, CA · May 2013
#27
TalkSF PyData
San Francisco, CA · May 2013
#26
TalkPython in Finance
New York, NY · Apr 2013
Productive Data Tools for Quants

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#25
TalkData Day Texas
Austin, TX · Mar 2013
#24
TalkPyData
Santa Clara, CA · Mar 2013
#23
TalkStrata
Santa Clara, CA · Feb 2013
Tutorial: Python for Data Analysis
#22
TalkO’Reilly Webcast
The Internet · Feb 2013
Building Rich, High Performance Tools for Practical Data Analysis

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#21
TalkBoston Algorithmic Finance Meetup
Boston, MA · Jan 2013
pandas for Financial Data Analysis

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#20
TalkStrata NY
New York, NY · Oct 2012
Building Rich, High Performance Tools for Practical Data Analysis

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#19
TalkData Science London Meetup
London, UK · Oct 2012
#18
TalkLondon Financial Python User Group
London, UK · Oct 2012
Financial data analysis in Python with pandas
#17
TalkSciPy 2012
Austin, TX · Jul 2012
Tutorial: Time series processing with pandas / Talk: Time Series Manipulation with pandas

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#16
TalkGeneral Assembly
New York, NY · Jun 2012
Intro to Python for Financial Data Analysis

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#15
TalkPhilly PUG
Philadelphia, PA · Mar 2012
pandas: Powerful data analysis tools for Python

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#14
TalkPyCon 2012
Santa Clara, CA · Mar 2012
pandas: Powerful data analysis tools for Python

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#13
TutorialPyCon 2012
Santa Clara, CA · Mar 2012
Data Analysis in Python with pandas

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#12
TalkPyData
Mountain View, CA · Mar 2012
Data Analysis in Python with Pandas

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#11
TalkNYC Python Meetup
New York, NY · Jan 2012
A look inside pandas design and development

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#10
TalkRice University Department of Statistics
Houston, TX · Nov 2011
Structured Data Challenges in Finance and Statistics

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#9
TalkSuperComputing / PyHPC 2011
Seattle, WA · Nov 2011
pandas: a Foundational Python library for Data Analysis and Statistics

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#8
TalkBaruch University
New York, NY · Oct 2011
Financial data analysis in Python with pandas (Tutorial)

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#7
TalkPyGotham 2011
New York, NY · Sep 2011
Powerful Pythonic data analysis using pandas

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#6
TalkNY Open Statistics Programming Meetup
New York, NY · Sep 2011
Data Analysis and Statistics in Python using pandas and statsmodels

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#5
TalkGeneral Assembly
New York, NY · Aug 2011
What’s new in pandas and the SciPy stack for financial users

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#4
TalkSciPy 2011 Lightning Talk
Austin, TX · Jul 2011
pandas lightning talk

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#3
TalkSciPy 2011
Austin, TX · Jul 2011
Time Series Analysis in Python

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#2
TalkSciPy 2010
Austin, TX · Jul 2010
Data Structures for Statistical Computing in Python

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#1
TalkPyCon 2010
Atlanta, GA · Feb 2010
Python for Quantitative Finance

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