Support DataFrame Interchange Protocol #251
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Closes #243
This PR adds support for Python objects that implement the DataFrame Interchange Protocol. Altair is adding support for this protocol in version 5.
Here is an example with polars (and Altair 5 and pyarrow 11.0.0)
Internally, the polars DataFrame is zero-copy converted into a PyArrow table, which is then processed by DataFusion. No conversion to/from pandas is involved, so it's really fast. Here's a speed comparison
Polars
pandas
Geo Interface
By being more careful about the input data types, this PR also closes #250