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| # /// script | |
| # requires-python = ">=3.12" | |
| # dependencies = [ | |
| # "altair==5.5.0", | |
| # "beautifulsoup4==4.13.3", | |
| # "httpx==0.28.1", | |
| # "marimo", | |
| # "nest-asyncio==1.6.0", | |
| # "numba==0.61.0", | |
| # "numpy==2.1.3", | |
| # "polars==1.24.0", | |
| # ] | |
| # /// | |
| import marimo | |
| __generated_with = "0.11.17" | |
| app = marimo.App(width="medium") | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.md( | |
| r""" | |
| # User-Defined Functions | |
| _By [Péter Ferenc Gyarmati](http://github.com/peter-gy)_. | |
| Throughout the previous chapters, you've seen how Polars provides a comprehensive set of built-in expressions for flexible data transformation. But what happens when you need something *more*? Perhaps your project has unique requirements, or you need to integrate functionality from an external Python library. This is where User-Defined Functions (UDFs) come into play, allowing you to extend Polars with your own custom logic. | |
| In this chapter, we'll weigh the performance trade-offs of UDFs, pinpoint situations where they're truly beneficial, and explore different ways to effectively incorporate them into your Polars workflows. We'll walk through a complete, practical example. | |
| """ | |
| ) | |
| return | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.md( | |
| r""" | |
| ## ⚖️ The Cost of UDFs | |
| > Performance vs. Flexibility | |
| Polars' built-in expressions are highly optimized for speed and parallel processing. User-defined functions (UDFs), however, introduce a significant performance overhead because they rely on standard Python code, which often runs in a single thread and bypasses Polars' logical optimizations. Therefore, always prioritize native Polars operations *whenever possible*. | |
| However, UDFs become inevitable when you need to: | |
| - **Integrate external libraries:** Use functionality not directly available in Polars. | |
| - **Implement custom logic:** Handle complex transformations that can't be easily expressed with Polars' built-in functions. | |
| Let's dive into a real-world project where UDFs were the only way to get the job done, demonstrating a scenario where native Polars expressions simply weren't sufficient. | |
| """ | |
| ) | |
| return | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.md( | |
| r""" | |
| ## 📊 Project Overview | |
| > Scraping and Analyzing Observable Notebook Statistics | |
| If you're into data visualization, you've probably seen [D3.js](https://d3js.org/) and [Observable Plot](https://observablehq.com/plot/). Both have extensive galleries showcasing amazing visualizations. Each gallery item is a standalone [Observable notebook](https://observablehq.com/documentation/notebooks/), with metrics like stars, comments, and forks – indicators of popularity. But getting and analyzing these statistics directly isn't straightforward. We'll need to scrape the web. | |
| """ | |
| ) | |
| return | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.hstack( | |
| [ | |
| mo.image( | |
| "https://minio.peter.gy/static/assets/marimo/learn/polars/14_d3-gallery.png?0", | |
| width=600, | |
| caption="Screenshot of https://observablehq.com/@d3/gallery", | |
| ), | |
| mo.image( | |
| "https://minio.peter.gy/static/assets/marimo/learn/polars/14_plot-gallery.png?0", | |
| width=600, | |
| caption="Screenshot of https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-gallery", | |
| ), | |
| ] | |
| ) | |
| return | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.md(r"""Our goal is to use Polars UDFs to fetch the HTML content of these gallery pages. Then, we'll use the `BeautifulSoup` Python library to parse the HTML and extract the relevant metadata. After some data wrangling with native Polars expressions, we'll have a DataFrame listing each visualization notebook. Then, we'll use another UDF to retrieve the number of likes, forks, and comments for each notebook. Finally, we will create our own high-performance UDF to implement a custom notebook ranking scheme. This will involve multiple steps, showcasing different UDF approaches.""") | |
| return | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.mermaid(''' | |
| graph LR; | |
| url_df --> |"UDF: Fetch HTML"| html_df | |
| html_df --> |"UDF: Parse with BeautifulSoup"| parsed_html_df | |
| parsed_html_df --> |"Native Polars: Extract Data"| notebooks_df | |
| notebooks_df --> |"UDF: Get Notebook Stats"| notebook_stats_df | |
| notebook_stats_df --> |"Numba UDF: Compute Popularity"| notebook_popularity_df | |
| ''') | |
| return | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.md(r"""Our starting point, `url_df`, is a simple DataFrame with a single `url` column containing the URLs of the D3 and Observable Plot gallery notebooks.""") | |
| return | |
| def _(pl): | |
| url_df = pl.from_dict( | |
| { | |
| "url": [ | |
| "https://observablehq.com/@d3/gallery", | |
| "https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-gallery", | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ) | |
| url_df | |
| return (url_df,) | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.md( | |
| r""" | |
| ## 🔂 Element-Wise UDFs | |
| > Processing Value by Value | |
| The most common way to use UDFs is to apply them element-wise. This means our custom function will execute for *each individual row* in a specified column. Our first task is to fetch the HTML content for each URL in `url_df`. | |
| We'll define a Python function that takes a `url` (a string) as input, uses the `httpx` library (an HTTP client) to fetch the content, and returns the HTML as a string. We then integrate this function into Polars using the [`map_elements`](https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/expressions/api/polars.Expr.map_elements.html) expression. | |
| You'll notice we have to explicitly specify the `return_dtype`. This is *crucial*. Polars doesn't automatically know what our custom function will return. We're responsible for defining the function's logic and, therefore, its output type. By providing the `return_dtype`, we help Polars maintain its internal representation of the DataFrame's schema, enabling query optimization. Think of it as giving Polars a "heads-up" about the data type it should expect. | |
| """ | |
| ) | |
| return | |
| def _(httpx, pl, url_df): | |
| html_df = url_df.with_columns( | |
| html=pl.col("url").map_elements( | |
| lambda url: httpx.get(url).text, | |
| return_dtype=pl.String, | |
| ) | |
| ) | |
| html_df | |
| return (html_df,) | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.md( | |
| r""" | |
| Now, `html_df` holds the HTML for each URL. We need to parse it. Again, a UDF is the way to go. Parsing HTML with native Polars expressions would be a nightmare! Instead, we'll use the [`beautifulsoup4`](https://pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4/) library, a standard tool for this. | |
| These Observable pages are built with [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/), which helpfully serializes page properties as JSON within the HTML. This simplifies our UDF: we'll extract the raw JSON from the `<script id="__NEXT_DATA__" type="application/json">` tag. We'll use [`map_elements`](https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/expressions/api/polars.Expr.map_elements.html) again. For clarity, we'll define this UDF as a named function, `extract_nextjs_data`, since it's a bit more complex than a simple HTTP request. | |
| """ | |
| ) | |
| return | |
| def _(BeautifulSoup): | |
| def extract_nextjs_data(html: str) -> str: | |
| soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") | |
| script_tag = soup.find("script", id="__NEXT_DATA__") | |
| return script_tag.text | |
| return (extract_nextjs_data,) | |
| def _(extract_nextjs_data, html_df, pl): | |
| parsed_html_df = html_df.select( | |
| "url", | |
| next_data=pl.col("html").map_elements( | |
| extract_nextjs_data, | |
| return_dtype=pl.String, | |
| ), | |
| ) | |
| parsed_html_df | |
| return (parsed_html_df,) | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.md(r"""With some data wrangling of the raw JSON (using *native* Polars expressions!), we get `notebooks_df`, containing the metadata for each notebook.""") | |
| return | |
| def _(parsed_html_df, pl): | |
| notebooks_df = ( | |
| parsed_html_df.select( | |
| "url", | |
| # We extract the content of every cell present in the gallery notebooks | |
| cell=pl.col("next_data") | |
| .str.json_path_match("$.props.pageProps.initialNotebook.nodes") | |
| .str.json_decode() | |
| .list.eval(pl.element().struct.field("value")), | |
| ) | |
| # We want one row per cell | |
| .explode("cell") | |
| # Only keep categorized notebook listing cells starting with H3 | |
| .filter(pl.col("cell").str.starts_with("### ")) | |
| # Split up the cells into [heading, description, config] sections | |
| .with_columns(pl.col("cell").str.split("\n\n")) | |
| .select( | |
| gallery_url="url", | |
| # Text after the '### ' heading, ignore '<!--' comments' | |
| category=pl.col("cell").list.get(0).str.extract(r"###\s+(.*?)(?:\s+<!--.*?-->|$)"), | |
| # Paragraph after heading | |
| description=pl.col("cell") | |
| .list.get(1) | |
| .str.strip_chars(" ") | |
| .str.replace_all("](/", "](https://observablehq.com/", literal=True), | |
| # Parsed notebook config from ${preview([{...}])} | |
| notebooks=pl.col("cell") | |
| .list.get(2) | |
| .str.strip_prefix("${previews([") | |
| .str.strip_suffix("]})}") | |
| .str.strip_chars(" \n") | |
| .str.split("},") | |
| # Simple regex-based attribute extraction from JS/JSON objects like | |
| # ```js | |
| # { | |
| # path: "@d3/spilhaus-shoreline-map", | |
| # "thumbnail": "66a87355e205d820...", | |
| # title: "Spilhaus shoreline map", | |
| # "author": "D3" | |
| # } | |
| # ``` | |
| .list.eval( | |
| pl.struct( | |
| *( | |
| pl.element() | |
| .str.extract(f'(?:"{key}"|{key})\s*:\s*"([^"]*)"') | |
| .alias(key) | |
| for key in ["path", "thumbnail", "title"] | |
| ) | |
| ) | |
| ), | |
| ) | |
| .explode("notebooks") | |
| .unnest("notebooks") | |
| .filter(pl.col("path").is_not_null()) | |
| # Final projection to end up with directly usable values | |
| .select( | |
| pl.concat_str( | |
| [ | |
| pl.lit("https://static.observableusercontent.com/thumbnail/"), | |
| "thumbnail", | |
| pl.lit(".jpg"), | |
| ], | |
| ).alias("notebook_thumbnail_src"), | |
| "category", | |
| "title", | |
| "description", | |
| pl.concat_str( | |
| [pl.lit("https://observablehq.com"), "path"], separator="/" | |
| ).alias("notebook_url"), | |
| ) | |
| ) | |
| notebooks_df | |
| return (notebooks_df,) | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.md( | |
| r""" | |
| ## 📦 Batch-Wise UDFs | |
| > Processing Entire Series | |
| `map_elements` calls the UDF for *each row*. Fine for our tiny, two-rows-tall `url_df`. But `notebooks_df` has almost 400 rows! Individual HTTP requests for each would be painfully slow. | |
| We want stats for each notebook in `notebooks_df`. To avoid sequential requests, we'll use Polars' [`map_batches`](https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/expressions/api/polars.Expr.map_batches.html). This lets us process an *entire Series* (a column) at once. | |
| Our UDF, `fetch_html_batch`, will take a *Series* of URLs and use `asyncio` to make concurrent requests – a huge performance boost. | |
| """ | |
| ) | |
| return | |
| def _(Iterable, asyncio, httpx, mo): | |
| async def _fetch_html_batch(urls: Iterable[str]) -> tuple[str, ...]: | |
| async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=15) as client: | |
| res = await asyncio.gather(*(client.get(url) for url in urls)) | |
| return tuple((r.text for r in res)) | |
| def fetch_html_batch(urls: Iterable[str]) -> tuple[str, ...]: | |
| return asyncio.run(_fetch_html_batch(urls)) | |
| return (fetch_html_batch,) | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.callout( | |
| mo.md(""" | |
| Since `fetch_html_batch` is a pure Python function and performs multiple network requests, it's a good candidate for caching. We use [`mo.cache`](https://docs.marimo.io/api/caching/#marimo.cache) to avoid redundant requests to the same URL. This is a simple way to improve performance without modifying the core logic. | |
| """ | |
| ), | |
| kind="info", | |
| ) | |
| return | |
| def _(mo, notebooks_df): | |
| category = mo.ui.dropdown( | |
| notebooks_df.sort("category").get_column("category"), | |
| value="Maps", | |
| ) | |
| return (category,) | |
| def _(category, extract_nextjs_data, fetch_html_batch, notebooks_df, pl): | |
| notebook_stats_df = ( | |
| # Setting filter upstream to limit number of concurrent HTTP requests | |
| notebooks_df.filter(category=category.value) | |
| .with_columns( | |
| notebook_html=pl.col("notebook_url") | |
| .map_batches(fetch_html_batch, return_dtype=pl.List(pl.String)) | |
| .explode() | |
| ) | |
| .with_columns( | |
| notebook_data=pl.col("notebook_html") | |
| .map_elements( | |
| extract_nextjs_data, | |
| return_dtype=pl.String, | |
| ) | |
| .str.json_path_match("$.props.pageProps.initialNotebook") | |
| .str.json_decode() | |
| ) | |
| .drop("notebook_html") | |
| .with_columns( | |
| *[ | |
| pl.col("notebook_data").struct.field(key).alias(key) | |
| for key in ["likes", "forks", "comments", "license"] | |
| ] | |
| ) | |
| .drop("notebook_data") | |
| .with_columns(pl.col("comments").list.len()) | |
| .select( | |
| pl.exclude("description", "notebook_url"), | |
| "description", | |
| "notebook_url", | |
| ) | |
| .sort("likes", descending=True) | |
| ) | |
| return (notebook_stats_df,) | |
| def _(mo, notebook_stats_df): | |
| notebooks = mo.ui.table(notebook_stats_df, selection='single', initial_selection=[2], page_size=5) | |
| notebook_height = mo.ui.slider(start=400, stop=2000, value=825, step=25, show_value=True, label='Notebook Height') | |
| return notebook_height, notebooks | |
| def _(): | |
| def nb_iframe(notebook_url: str, height=825) -> str: | |
| embed_url = notebook_url.replace( | |
| "https://observablehq.com", "https://observablehq.com/embed" | |
| ) | |
| return f'<iframe width="100%" height="{height}" frameborder="0" src="{embed_url}?cell=*"></iframe>' | |
| return (nb_iframe,) | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.md(r"""Now that we have access to notebook-level statistics, we can rank the visualizations by the number of likes they received & display them interactively.""") | |
| return | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.callout("💡 Explore the visualizations by paging through the table below and selecting any of its rows.") | |
| return | |
| def _(category, mo, nb_iframe, notebook_height, notebooks): | |
| notebook = notebooks.value.to_dicts()[0] | |
| mo.vstack( | |
| [ | |
| mo.hstack([category, notebook_height]), | |
| notebooks, | |
| mo.md(f"{notebook['description']}"), | |
| mo.md('---'), | |
| mo.md(nb_iframe(notebook["notebook_url"], notebook_height.value)), | |
| ] | |
| ) | |
| return (notebook,) | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.md( | |
| r""" | |
| ## ⚙️ Row-Wise UDFs | |
| > Accessing All Columns at Once | |
| Sometimes, you need to work with *all* columns of a row at once. This is where [`map_rows`](https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/dataframe/api/polars.DataFrame.map_rows.html) comes in. It operates directly on the DataFrame, passing each row to your UDF *as a tuple*. | |
| Below, `create_notebook_summary` takes a row from `notebook_stats_df` (as a tuple) and returns a formatted Markdown string summarizing the notebook's key stats. We're essentially reducing the DataFrame to a single column. While this *could* be done with native Polars expressions, it would be much more cumbersome. This example demonstrates a case where a row-wise UDF simplifies the code, even if the underlying operation isn't inherently complex. | |
| """ | |
| ) | |
| return | |
| def _(): | |
| def create_notebook_summary(row: tuple) -> str: | |
| ( | |
| thumbnail_src, | |
| category, | |
| title, | |
| likes, | |
| forks, | |
| comments, | |
| license, | |
| description, | |
| notebook_url, | |
| ) = row | |
| return ( | |
| f""" | |
| ### [{title}]({notebook_url}) | |
| <div style="display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr; gap: 12px; margin: 12px 0;"> | |
| <div>⭐ <strong>Likes:</strong> {likes}</div> | |
| <div>↗️ <strong>Forks:</strong> {forks}</div> | |
| <div>💬 <strong>Comments:</strong> {comments}</div> | |
| <div>⚖️ <strong>License:</strong> {license}</div> | |
| </div> | |
| <a href="{notebook_url}" target="_blank"> | |
| <img src="{thumbnail_src}" style="height: 300px;" /> | |
| <a/> | |
| """.strip('\n') | |
| ) | |
| return (create_notebook_summary,) | |
| def _(create_notebook_summary, notebook_stats_df, pl): | |
| notebook_summary_df = notebook_stats_df.map_rows( | |
| create_notebook_summary, | |
| return_dtype=pl.String, | |
| ).rename({"map": "summary"}) | |
| notebook_summary_df.head(1) | |
| return (notebook_summary_df,) | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.callout("💡 You can explore individual notebook statistics through the carousel. Discover the visualization's source code by clicking the notebook title or the thumbnail.") | |
| return | |
| def _(mo, notebook_summary_df): | |
| mo.carousel( | |
| [ | |
| mo.lazy(mo.md(summary)) | |
| for summary in notebook_summary_df.get_column("summary") | |
| ] | |
| ) | |
| return | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.md( | |
| r""" | |
| ## 🚀 Higher-performance UDFs | |
| > Leveraging Numba to Make Python Fast | |
| Python code doesn't *always* mean slow code. While UDFs *often* introduce performance overhead, there are exceptions. NumPy's universal functions ([`ufuncs`](https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/ufuncs.html)) and generalized universal functions ([`gufuncs`](https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0005-generalized-ufuncs.html)) provide high-performance operations on NumPy arrays, thanks to low-level implementations. | |
| But NumPy's built-in functions are predefined. We can't easily use them for *custom* logic. Enter [`numba`](https://numba.pydata.org/). Numba is a just-in-time (JIT) compiler that translates Python functions into optimized machine code *at runtime*. It provides decorators like [`numba.guvectorize`](https://numba.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/vectorize.html#the-guvectorize-decorator) that let us create our *own* high-performance `gufuncs` – *without* writing low-level code! | |
| """ | |
| ) | |
| return | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.md( | |
| r""" | |
| Let's create a custom popularity metric to rank notebooks, considering likes, forks, *and* comments (not just likes). We'll define `weighted_popularity_numba`, decorated with `@numba.guvectorize`. The decorator arguments specify that we're taking three integer vectors of length `n` and returning a float vector of length `n`. | |
| The weighted popularity score for each notebook is calculated using the following formula: | |
| $$ | |
| \begin{equation} | |
| \text{score}_i = w_l \cdot l_i^{f} + w_f \cdot f_i^{f} + w_c \cdot c_i^{f} | |
| \end{equation} | |
| $$ | |
| with: | |
| """ | |
| ) | |
| return | |
| def _(mo, non_linear_factor, weight_comments, weight_forks, weight_likes): | |
| mo.md(rf""" | |
| | Symbol | Description | | |
| |--------|-------------| | |
| | $\text{{score}}_i$ | Popularity score for the *i*-th notebook | | |
| | $w_l = {weight_likes.value}$ | Weight for likes | | |
| | $l_i$ | Number of likes for the *i*-th notebook | | |
| | $w_f = {weight_forks.value}$ | Weight for forks | | |
| | $f_i$ | Number of forks for the *i*-th notebook | | |
| | $w_c = {weight_comments.value}$ | Weight for comments | | |
| | $c_i$ | Number of comments for the *i*-th notebook | | |
| | $f = {non_linear_factor.value}$ | Non-linear factor (exponent) | | |
| """) | |
| return | |
| def _(mo): | |
| weight_likes = mo.ui.slider( | |
| start=0.1, | |
| stop=1, | |
| value=0.5, | |
| step=0.1, | |
| show_value=True, | |
| label="⭐ Weight for Likes", | |
| ) | |
| weight_forks = mo.ui.slider( | |
| start=0.1, | |
| stop=1, | |
| value=0.3, | |
| step=0.1, | |
| show_value=True, | |
| label="↗️ Weight for Forks", | |
| ) | |
| weight_comments = mo.ui.slider( | |
| start=0.1, | |
| stop=1, | |
| value=0.5, | |
| step=0.1, | |
| show_value=True, | |
| label="💬 Weight for Comments", | |
| ) | |
| non_linear_factor = mo.ui.slider( | |
| start=1, | |
| stop=2, | |
| value=1.2, | |
| step=0.1, | |
| show_value=True, | |
| label="🎢 Non-Linear Factor", | |
| ) | |
| return non_linear_factor, weight_comments, weight_forks, weight_likes | |
| def _( | |
| non_linear_factor, | |
| np, | |
| numba, | |
| weight_comments, | |
| weight_forks, | |
| weight_likes, | |
| ): | |
| w_l = weight_likes.value | |
| w_f = weight_forks.value | |
| w_c = weight_comments.value | |
| nlf = non_linear_factor.value | |
| def weighted_popularity_numba( | |
| likes: np.ndarray, | |
| forks: np.ndarray, | |
| comments: np.ndarray, | |
| out: np.ndarray, | |
| ): | |
| for i in range(likes.shape[0]): | |
| out[i] = ( | |
| w_l * (likes[i] ** nlf) | |
| + w_f * (forks[i] ** nlf) | |
| + w_c * (comments[i] ** nlf) | |
| ) | |
| return nlf, w_c, w_f, w_l, weighted_popularity_numba | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.md(r"""We apply our JIT-compiled UDF using `map_batches`, as before. The key is that we're passing entire columns directly to `weighted_popularity_numba`. Polars and Numba handle the conversion to NumPy arrays behind the scenes. This direct integration is a major benefit of using `guvectorize`.""") | |
| return | |
| def _(notebook_stats_df, pl, weighted_popularity_numba): | |
| notebook_popularity_df = ( | |
| notebook_stats_df.select( | |
| pl.col("notebook_thumbnail_src").alias("thumbnail"), | |
| "title", | |
| "likes", | |
| "forks", | |
| "comments", | |
| popularity=pl.struct(["likes", "forks", "comments"]).map_batches( | |
| lambda obj: weighted_popularity_numba( | |
| obj.struct.field("likes"), | |
| obj.struct.field("forks"), | |
| obj.struct.field("comments"), | |
| ), | |
| return_dtype=pl.Float64, | |
| ), | |
| url="notebook_url", | |
| ) | |
| ) | |
| return (notebook_popularity_df,) | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.callout("💡 Adjust the hyperparameters of the popularity ranking UDF. How do the weights and non-linear factor affect the notebook rankings?") | |
| return | |
| def _( | |
| mo, | |
| non_linear_factor, | |
| notebook_popularity_df, | |
| weight_comments, | |
| weight_forks, | |
| weight_likes, | |
| ): | |
| mo.vstack( | |
| [ | |
| mo.hstack([weight_likes, weight_forks]), | |
| mo.hstack([weight_comments, non_linear_factor]), | |
| notebook_popularity_df, | |
| ] | |
| ) | |
| return | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.md(r"""As the slope chart below demonstrates, this new ranking strategy significantly changes the notebook order, as it considers forks and comments, not just likes.""") | |
| return | |
| def _(alt, notebook_popularity_df, pl): | |
| notebook_ranks_df = ( | |
| notebook_popularity_df.sort("likes", descending=True) | |
| .with_row_index("rank_by_likes") | |
| .with_columns(pl.col("rank_by_likes") + 1) | |
| .sort("popularity", descending=True) | |
| .with_row_index("rank_by_popularity") | |
| .with_columns(pl.col("rank_by_popularity") + 1) | |
| .select("thumbnail", "title", "rank_by_popularity", "rank_by_likes") | |
| .unpivot( | |
| ["rank_by_popularity", "rank_by_likes"], | |
| index="title", | |
| variable_name="strategy", | |
| value_name="rank", | |
| ) | |
| ) | |
| # Slope chart to visualize rank differences by strategy | |
| lines = notebook_ranks_df.plot.line( | |
| x="strategy:O", | |
| y="rank:Q", | |
| color="title:N", | |
| ) | |
| points = notebook_ranks_df.plot.point( | |
| x="strategy:O", | |
| y="rank:Q", | |
| color=alt.Color("title:N", legend=None), | |
| fill="title:N", | |
| ) | |
| (points + lines).properties(width=400) | |
| return lines, notebook_ranks_df, points | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.md( | |
| r""" | |
| ## ⏱️ Quantifying the Overhead | |
| > UDF Performance Comparison | |
| To truly understand the performance implications of using UDFs, let's conduct a benchmark. We'll create a DataFrame with random numbers and perform the same numerical operation using four different methods: | |
| 1. **Native Polars:** Using Polars' built-in expressions. | |
| 2. **`map_elements`:** Applying a Python function element-wise. | |
| 3. **`map_batches`:** **Applying** a Python function to the entire Series. | |
| 4. **`map_batches` with Numba:** Applying a JIT-compiled function to batches, similar to a generalized universal function. | |
| We'll use a simple, but non-trivial, calculation: `result = (x * 2.5 + 5) / (x + 1)`. This involves multiplication, addition, and division, giving us a realistic representation of a common numerical operation. We'll use the `timeit` module, to accurately measure execution times over multiple trials. | |
| """ | |
| ) | |
| return | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.callout("💡 Tweak the benchmark parameters to explore how execution times change with different sample sizes and trial counts. Do you notice anything surprising as you decrease the number of samples?") | |
| return | |
| def _(benchmark_plot, mo, num_samples, num_trials): | |
| mo.vstack( | |
| [ | |
| mo.hstack([num_samples, num_trials]), | |
| mo.md( | |
| f"""--- | |
| Performance comparison over **{num_trials.value:,} trials** with **{num_samples.value:,} samples**. | |
| > Lower execution times are better. | |
| """ | |
| ), | |
| benchmark_plot, | |
| ] | |
| ) | |
| return | |
| def _(mo): | |
| mo.md( | |
| r""" | |
| As anticipated, the `Batch-Wise UDF (Python)` and `Element-Wise UDF` exhibit significantly worse performance, essentially acting as pure-Python for-each loops. | |
| However, when Python serves as an interface to lower-level, high-performance libraries, we observe substantial improvements. The `Batch-Wise UDF (NumPy)` lags behind both `Batch-Wise UDF (Numba)` and `Native Polars`, but it still represents a considerable improvement over pure-Python UDFs due to its vectorized computations. | |
| Numba's Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation delivers a dramatic performance boost, achieving speeds comparable to native Polars expressions. This demonstrates that UDFs, particularly when combined with tools like Numba, don't inevitably lead to bottlenecks in numerical computations. | |
| """ | |
| ) | |
| return | |
| def _(mo): | |
| num_samples = mo.ui.slider( | |
| start=1_000, | |
| stop=1_000_000, | |
| value=250_000, | |
| step=1000, | |
| show_value=True, | |
| debounce=True, | |
| label="Number of Samples", | |
| ) | |
| num_trials = mo.ui.slider( | |
| start=50, | |
| stop=1_000, | |
| value=100, | |
| step=50, | |
| show_value=True, | |
| debounce=True, | |
| label="Number of Trials", | |
| ) | |
| return num_samples, num_trials | |
| def _(np, num_samples, pl): | |
| rng = np.random.default_rng(42) | |
| sample_df = pl.from_dict({"x": rng.random(num_samples.value)}) | |
| return rng, sample_df | |
| def _(np, num_trials, numba, pl, sample_df, timeit): | |
| def run_native(): | |
| sample_df.with_columns( | |
| result_native=(pl.col("x") * 2.5 + 5) / (pl.col("x") + 1) | |
| ) | |
| def _calculate_elementwise(x: float) -> float: | |
| return (x * 2.5 + 5) / (x + 1) | |
| def run_map_elements(): | |
| sample_df.with_columns( | |
| result_map_elements=pl.col("x").map_elements( | |
| _calculate_elementwise, | |
| return_dtype=pl.Float64, | |
| ) | |
| ) | |
| def _calculate_batchwise_numpy(x_series: pl.Series) -> pl.Series: | |
| x_array = x_series.to_numpy() | |
| result_array = (x_array * 2.5 + 5) / (x_array + 1) | |
| return pl.Series(result_array) | |
| def run_map_batches_numpy(): | |
| sample_df.with_columns( | |
| result_map_batches_numpy=pl.col("x").map_batches( | |
| _calculate_batchwise_numpy, | |
| return_dtype=pl.Float64, | |
| ) | |
| ) | |
| def _calculate_batchwise_python(x_series: pl.Series) -> pl.Series: | |
| x_array = x_series.to_list() | |
| result_array = [_calculate_elementwise(x) for x in x_array] | |
| return pl.Series(result_array) | |
| def run_map_batches_python(): | |
| sample_df.with_columns( | |
| result_map_batches_python=pl.col("x").map_batches( | |
| _calculate_batchwise_python, | |
| return_dtype=pl.Float64, | |
| ) | |
| ) | |
| def _calculate_batchwise_numba(x: np.ndarray, out: np.ndarray): | |
| for i in range(x.shape[0]): | |
| out[i] = (x[i] * 2.5 + 5) / (x[i] + 1) | |
| def run_map_batches_numba(): | |
| sample_df.with_columns( | |
| result_map_batches_numba=pl.col("x").map_batches( | |
| _calculate_batchwise_numba, | |
| return_dtype=pl.Float64, | |
| ) | |
| ) | |
| def time_method(callable_name: str, number=num_trials.value) -> float: | |
| fn = globals()[callable_name] | |
| return timeit.timeit(fn, number=number) | |
| return ( | |
| run_map_batches_numba, | |
| run_map_batches_numpy, | |
| run_map_batches_python, | |
| run_map_elements, | |
| run_native, | |
| time_method, | |
| ) | |
| def _(alt, pl, time_method): | |
| benchmark_df = pl.from_dicts( | |
| [ | |
| { | |
| "title": "Native Polars", | |
| "callable_name": "run_native", | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "title": "Element-Wise UDF", | |
| "callable_name": "run_map_elements", | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "title": "Batch-Wise UDF (NumPy)", | |
| "callable_name": "run_map_batches_numpy", | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "title": "Batch-Wise UDF (Python)", | |
| "callable_name": "run_map_batches_python", | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "title": "Batch-Wise UDF (Numba)", | |
| "callable_name": "run_map_batches_numba", | |
| }, | |
| ] | |
| ).with_columns( | |
| time=pl.col("callable_name").map_elements( | |
| time_method, return_dtype=pl.Float64 | |
| ) | |
| ) | |
| benchmark_plot = benchmark_df.plot.bar( | |
| x=alt.X("title:N", title="Method", sort="-y"), | |
| y=alt.Y("time:Q", title="Execution Time (s)", axis=alt.Axis(format=".3f")), | |
| ).properties(width=400) | |
| return benchmark_df, benchmark_plot | |
| def _(): | |
| import asyncio | |
| import timeit | |
| from typing import Iterable | |
| import altair as alt | |
| import httpx | |
| import marimo as mo | |
| import nest_asyncio | |
| import numba | |
| import numpy as np | |
| from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
| import polars as pl | |
| # Fixes RuntimeError: asyncio.run() cannot be called from a running event loop | |
| nest_asyncio.apply() | |
| return ( | |
| BeautifulSoup, | |
| Iterable, | |
| alt, | |
| asyncio, | |
| httpx, | |
| mo, | |
| nest_asyncio, | |
| np, | |
| numba, | |
| pl, | |
| timeit, | |
| ) | |
| if __name__ == "__main__": | |
| app.run() | |