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Reminder its the Dask Community Meeting on Thursday November 6th 2025 at 10am US Central time (4pm UTC)
Come along and hear about what's going on in the Dask community and to share what you're building with Dask.
Ad-hoc demos very welcome!
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The monthly Dask Community Meeting is on Thursday, October 2nd at 10:00 US/Central.
Come along and share what you've been doing with Dask.
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Demos from the September community meeting are now up on YouTube. See how Dask is being used for scalable computing in Astronomy and the latest updates from dask-jobqueue.
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Dask DataFrame is now 20x faster. Some of most prominent changes include:
- Apache Arrow support in @pandas_dev
- Better shuffling algorithm for faster joins
- Automatic query optimization
Learn more: docs.coiled.io/blog/dask-dat…
ALT Bar chart showing a 20x improvement in Dask DataFrame performance with the addition of Arrow stings, more efficient shufffling, and a query optimizer.
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Are you using Dask in your projects? The rest of the community would love to hear about it!
Come and give an informal demo at our next community meeting on June 6th.
Demo sign up issue is here github.com/dask/community/is…
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Next month we are trying a new consolidated Community Meeting format.
All Dask users/developers are welcome!
Topics will include:
• Development updates
• Dask Demos
• Maintenance coordination
📅 Add it to your calendar now
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We had some great talks at last month's Dask Demo Day like dask on @databricks, scaling embedding pipelines with @llama_index and deploying @PrefectIO on the cloud.
Join the next one this Thursday, 11am ET github.com/dask/community/is…
Watch the recording: piped.video/watch?v=07e1JL83…
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Query planning for Dask Dataframe released
github.com/dask/dask/issues/…
Dask dataframe is pretty fast now, even when folks write less-than-perfect code.
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Join us for Dask Demo Day to see how to deploy @databricks on Dask, run @PrefectIO workflows in the cloud, and scale embedding pipelines.
🗓️February 15 (today!)
⏰11am ET
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Thanks all for joining! The recording is up on youtube: piped.video/watch?v=wkQzVNQd…
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Join us for Dask demo day and hear talks on @ApacheBeam on Dask, recent work on a high level expression system for Dask Array, and how Dask compares to Spark in the 1BRC.
🗓️ January 18 (today!)
⏰11am US Eastern github.com/dask/community/is…
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Happy birthday old friend 🥂
I am 10 years old today! 🥳
Thanks for all your support and love! ❤️
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Join us for Dask demo day! There will be talks on Fondant, @RAPIDSai, Arraylake from @EarthmoverHQ, and TPC-H benchmarks for Spark, Dask, Polars, and DuckDB.
🗓️ Oct. 19 (today!)
⏰ 11am Eastern
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Join us for Dask demo day! There will be short talks on p2p shuffling performance for arrays and on Dask expressions.
🗓️ Sept. 21 (this Thursday)
⏰11am Eastern
More details in github.com/dask/community/is…
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The July Dask Demo Day recording is up, we had great talks from the community. Go check it out.
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Latest recording for the Dask Demo Day is up.
Topics where:
- Dask-GeoPandas
- Gil montoring in Dask
- FIne performance dask metrics
- Dask spans
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Thursday 06/15 we have Dask Demo Day!.
We will learn about
- dask-geopandas by @martinfleis
- Fine performance dask metrics and spans by GUido Imperiale
- GIL monitoring in dask by Miles Granger
Join as at 11am EDT in zoom us06web.zoom.us/j/8938303570…
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Build efficient, cross-Regional, I/O-intensive workloads with Dask on AWS:
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In the next release of dask distributed we will be renaming the dask-worker-space temporary directory to dask-scratch-space to better reflect that it is used by more than just workers.
Prepare to update your .gitignore files!
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April Dask Demo Day recording is up. We had great talks, check them out! piped.video/watch?v=7ja_YHYg…
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