# Resources

## Sponsors and institutional partners

Narwhals is 100% independent, community-driven, and community-owned.
We are extremely grateful to the following organisations for having
provided some funding / development time:

- [Quansight Labs](https://labs.quansight.org)
- [Quansight Futures](https://www.qi.ventures)
- [OpenTeams](https://www.openteams.com)
- [POSSEE initiative](https://possee.org)
- [BYU-Idaho](https://www.byui.edu)

If you contribute to Narwhals on your organization's time, please let us know. We'd be happy to add your employer
to this list!

## Appears on

Narwhals has been featured in several talks, podcasts, and blog posts:

- [Talk Python to me Podcast](https://youtu.be/FSH7BZ0tuE0)
  Ahoy, Narwhals are bridging the data science APIs

- [Python Bytes Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/live/N7w_ESVW40I?si=y-wN1uCsAuJOKlOT&t=382)
  Episode 402, topic #2

- [Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeG4U8R0U8U)  
  Narwhals: For Pandas-to-Polars DataFrame Compatibility

- [Sample Space Podcast | probabl](https://youtu.be/8hYdq4sWbbQ?si=WG0QP1CZ6gkFf18b)  
  How Narwhals has many end users ... that never use it directly. - Marco Gorelli

- [The Real Python Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5DFZbFYzCM)
  Narwhals: Expanding DataFrame Compatibility Between Libraries

- [Pycon Lithuania](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mdx7Cn6_6E)  
  Marco Gorelli - DataFrame interoperatiblity - what's been achieved, and what comes next?

- [Pycon Italy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IqUli9XsmQ)  
  How you can write a dataframe-agnostic library - Marco Gorelli

- [Polars Blog Post](https://pola.rs/posts/lightweight_plotting/)  
  Polars has a new lightweight plotting backend

- [Quansight Labs blog post (w/ Scikit-Lego)](https://labs.quansight.org/blog/scikit-lego-narwhals)  
  How Narwhals and scikit-lego came together to achieve dataframe-agnosticism
