Introduction

If you are dealing with a large amount of data and you are worried that Pandas’ data frame is unable to load it or NumPy arrays get stuck in between and you even need a much better and parallelized solution for your data processing and training machine learning models then dask open up a solution to this problem. Before diving into that, let’s see what actually is dask?

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What is dask?

Dask is an extremely efficient open-source project that uses existing Python Apis and knowledge structures that makes it straightforward to modify between Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-learn into their Dask-powered equivalents. Also, Dask’s schedulers scale to thousand-node clusters and its algorithms are tested on** a **numberof themostimportant supercomputers withinthe world.

Source: Scale up to clusters using Dask Parallelization

Installation

Does quality comes pre-installed inside your Anaconda but for pip you can get the complete one using this command:

Conda installation for Dask:

!conda install dask

pip installation for Dask:

!pip install “dask[complete]”

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