What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps you process and analyze extremely large tabular datasets that are too big to fit in memory by using lazy, out-of-core computations.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Out-of-core lazy DataFrames: Build virtual columns and defer computation until results are needed, enabling interactive exploration on massive files.
- High-performance filtering, aggregations, and groupby: Compute statistics efficiently (optionally in a single pass) using expressions, selections, and binning.
- Scalable visualization and ML-ready pipelines: Create heatmaps and histograms for big data and prepare features for machine learning with Vaex ML on large datasets.
Use case example: You have a multi-terabyte Parquet dataset and need to compute fast summary statistics and produce a 2D heatmap (e.g., mean of one metric across binned x/y ranges) without loading the entire dataset into RAM.
Quick Start
Use the vaex skill to summarize the dataset in 'data.parquet' by computing grouped statistics and generating a 2D heatmap from columns x and y.