Google Summer of Code

numpy/scipy page to steal things: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/GSoC-2016-project-ideas

libpandas refactor

sparse enhancement / fixes

IO

• avro support
• parquet support
• BSON?

numba

• general interface
• use AOT to generate code for groupby (and other algos), rather than direct templating

period

• implement as sub-class of IntervalIdex
• make a first class extension dtype

datetime

• support for non-ns dtypes

pd.String dtype