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17th September 2022

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TIL Using DuckDB in Python to access Parquet data — Did a quick experiment with [DuckDB](https://duckdb.org/) today, inspired by the [bmschmidt/hathi-binary](https://github.com/bmschmidt/hathi-binary) repo.

Posted 17th September 2022 at 2:47 am

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