pandas read_csv: Speed up loading with the PyArrow engine

pandas read_csv: Speed up loading with the PyArrow engine

Reading a CSV file into a Python Pandas data frame? Speed things up by specifying the PyArrow engine. Data storage isn’t affected.

df = pd.read_csv(filename)
df = pd.read_csv(filename, engine='pyarrow')

With a 2.2GB file, it took 4s vs. 55s — more than 10x faster!