Most people know me as the creator of pandas but I work full-time on Apache Arrow now and direct Ursa Labs. I am a Member of the Apache Software Foundation and also created the Ibis project. I blog occasionally on my personal website.
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My book Python for Data Analysis is in its 2nd edition and is a great introduction to the Python data stack (IPython, NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib).