What problem does it solve?
Vaex helps you work with tabular datasets that are too large to fit in memory, so you can explore, transform, and analyze massive data without slowing down or crashing your environment.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Out-of-core analysis: Filter, group, aggregate, and compute statistics on datasets that span gigabytes to terabytes.
- Fast data exploration: Load data from HDF5, Arrow, Parquet, or CSV and inspect schema, summaries, and samples efficiently.
- Visualization at scale: Build histograms, heatmaps, and multi-panel plots using all available data rather than small samples.
- Machine learning workflows: Create virtual features, encode categories, scale values, and run ML pipelines on large tables.
- Example use case: A researcher can convert a large CSV into a memory-mapped format, derive features with virtual columns, and generate grouped summaries and plots for publication.
Quick Start
Ask the Vaex skill to open your large dataset, summarize its columns, create any needed virtual features, and return the aggregations or visualizations you need.