Wes McKinney
Principal architect at Posit and creator of pandas, known for contributions to analytical computing and data tooling; discusses agent ergonomics, code generation, and the evolving software landscape.
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Feb 3, 2026 • 55min
Episode 69: Python is Dead. Long Live Python! With the Creators of pandas & Parquet
Alison Hill, product leader focused on multimodal UX and community learning. Marcel Kornacker, CTO and co-creator of Apache Parquet, expert in multimodal data systems. Wes McKinney, creator of pandas and data tooling veteran. They discuss agent ergonomics and language tradeoffs, adversarial AI code review, making image/video operations native to data platforms, and why taste and schemas matter for multimodal workflows.
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Jan 7, 2026 • 46min
How Open Source, Python and AI Are Shaping the Data Future with Wes McKinney of Posit PBC, Voltron Data and Composed Ventures
Wes McKinney, Principal Architect at Posit PBC and creator of the pandas library, joins the discussion on how open-source tools like Python are reshaping data analytics. He shares insights into the evolution of the modern data stack and the importance of interoperability. Wes highlights the necessity of human judgment in complex analytics, despite the rise of AI-driven agents. He discusses the challenges of language models with tabular data and emphasizes robust testing and defensive coding practices to navigate new AI-driven workflows.
Dec 1, 2025 • 1h 22min
From pandas to Arrow: Wes McKinney on the Future of Data Infrastructure
Wes McKinney, creator of pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow and Ibis, is a long-time leader in the Python data ecosystem. He walks through pandas’ UX-driven origins and the move to columnar in-memory Arrow. Conversations cover Arrow vs Parquet, new GPU-friendly file encodings, big metadata and table formats, Rust query engines like DataFusion, and how AI agents are changing developer workflows.
