functime: a next generation ML forecasting library powered by Polars

Luca Baggi

Polars conquered dataframes, and now it is coming for machine learning! With Polars-powered feature-extraction and a best-of-the-class set of diagnostic tools, functime enables **forecasting thousands of time series all at once, from the comfort of your laptop**. Though forecasting practitioners are the intended audience, the talk has something for every data scientist. With Polars, we can **push the boundary for what "reasonable scale" means - and build a new generation of tools for machine learning**.