Merge pull request #1 from ENCCS/intro_and_polars

Written Introduction and Polars episode

Author: ffrancesco94

.gitignore

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 .jupyter_cache
 jupyter_execute
 uv.lock
+nyc_yellow_taxi_2025-01.parquet

content/01_table_dataframe.svg

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+# Benchmarking
+
+:::{questions}
+
+- What syntax is used to make a lesson?
+- How do you structure a lesson effectively for teaching?
+- `questions` are at the top of a lesson and provide a starting
+  point for what you might learn.  It is usually a bulleted list.
+:::
+
+:::{objectives}
+
+- Show a complete lesson page with all of the most common
+  structures.
+- ...
+
+This is also a holdover from the carpentries-style.  It could
+usually be left off.
+:::
+
+The introduction should be a high level overview of what is on the
+page and why it is interesting.
+
+The lines below (only in the source) will set the default highlighting
+language for the entire page.
+
+:::{highlight} python
+:::
+
+## Section
+
+A section.
+
+:::{discussion}
+Discuss the following.
+
+- A discussion section
+- Another discussion topic
+:::
+
+## Section
+
+```
+print("hello world")
+# This uses the default highlighting language
+```
+
+```python
+print("hello world)
+```
+
+## Exercises: description
+
+:::{exercise} Exercise Topic-1: imperative description of exercise
+Exercise text here.
+:::
+
+:::{solution}
+Solution text here
+:::
+
+## Summary
+
+A Summary of what you learned and why it might be useful.  Maybe a
+hint of what comes next.
+
+## See also
+
+- Other relevant links
+- Other link
+
+:::{keypoints}
+
+- What the learner should take away
+- point 2
+- ...
+
+This is another holdover from the carpentries style.  This perhaps
+is better done in a "summary" section.
+:::

content/benchmarking.md

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 # -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
 
 # FIXME: choose title
-project = "Your lesson name"
+project = "Python for High Performance Data Analytics"
 # FIXME: insert correct author
-author = "The contributors"
+author = "Francesco Fiusco, Qiang Li, Ashwin Mohanan, Juan Triviño, Yonglei Wang"
 copyright = f"2025, ENCCS, {author}"
 
 # FIXME: github organization / user that the repository belongs to
 github_user = "ENCCS"
-github_repo_name = ""  # auto-detected from dirname if blank
+github_repo_name = "python-for-hpda"  # auto-detected from dirname if blank
 github_version = "main"
 conf_py_path = "/content/"  # with leading and trailing slash