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Ashish Kumar is a seasoned data science professional, a publisher author and a thought leader in the field of data science and machine learning. An IIT Madras graduate and a Young India Fellow, he has around 7 years of experience in implementing and deploying data science and machine learning solutions for challenging industry problems in both hands-on and leadership roles. Natural Language Procession, IoT Analytics, R Shiny product development, Ensemble ML methods etc. are his core areas of expertise. He is fluent in Python and R and teaches a popular ML course at Simplilearn. When not crunching data, Ashish sneaks off to the next hip beach around and enjoys the company of his Kindle. He also trains and mentors data science aspirants and fledgling start-ups.
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The feather format is a binary file format for storing data that makes use of Apache Arrow, an in-memory columnar data structure. It was developed by Wes Mckinney and Hadley Wickham, chief scientists at RStudio as an initiative for a data sharing infrastructure across Python and R. The columnar serialization of data in feather files makes way for efficient read and write operations, making it far faster than CSV and JSON files where storage is record-wise.

Feather files have the following features:

  • Fast I/O operations.
  • Feather files can be read and written in languages other than R or Python, such as Julia and Scala.
  • They have compatibility with all pandas datatypes, such as Datetime and Categorical.

Feather currently supports the following datatypes:

  • All numeric datatypes
  • Logical
  • Timestamps
  • Categorical
  • UTF-8 encoded strings
  • Binary

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