elixir-explorer/explorer

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Explorer is an Elixir library providing series (one-dimensional) and dataframes (two-dimensional) for fast data exploration and manipulation. It is backed by NIF bindings to the Polars library and offers a dplyr-inspired, immutable API with support for CSV, Parquet, NDJSON, and Arrow IPC formats.

Use cases

• work with dataframes in Elixir
• explore and manipulate tabular data in Elixir
• read and write CSV and Parquet files in Elixir
• filter and transform datasets with a dplyr-like API
• analyze large datasets fast in Elixir
• load data from S3 or databases into dataframes

When to choose

• you're doing data science or data manipulation in Elixir or Livebook
• you want Polars-level performance with an idiomatic Elixir API
• you need immutable, tidy-data-style dataframe operations

When to avoid

• you need a dataframe library outside the Elixir ecosystem
• you prefer SQL-based analytics via DuckDB (consider Dux instead)
• you need remote/Spark dataframe backends that are not yet implemented

Facets

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data-science etl csv json data-science analytics elixir rust cross-platform dataframes polars series dplyr-inspired parquet arrow data-engineering

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