Vaex Big Data Analytics
A skill that guides Claude to use Vaex for lazy, out-of-core analysis, visualization, and ML on billion-row tabular datasets that exceed RAM.
Data & AnalyticsIntermediate★ 33,030⑂ 3,248AI score 9/10Last updated: Aug 9, 2026
What it does
- Shows how to open and work with CSV/HDF5/Arrow/Parquet files larger than available memory using Vaex.
- Provides concrete patterns for virtual columns, lazy evaluation (
delay=True), groupby aggregations, and string/datetime ops. - Covers big-data visualization (heatmaps, histograms) and ML pipelines with vaex-ml, scikit-learn, XGBoost, CatBoost.
- Ships topic-based reference docs: core_dataframes, data_processing, performance, visualization, machine_learning, io_operations.
- Includes a decision guide for choosing vaex vs polars vs dask.
Who it's for
- Data analysts and engineers handling GB–TB scale logs, financial time series, or scientific datasets on a single machine.
- Anyone who keeps hitting out-of-memory errors with pandas.
- ML practitioners building preprocessing and training pipelines over oversized tables.
Example uses
- Convert a 50GB CSV into HDF5, then reopen instantly and inspect it with
describe(). - Batch mean/std/sum computations over a billion rows using
delay=Trueplusvaex.execute(). - Plot
df.viz.heatmap(...)for millions of points, then chain scaling → PCA → K-means with vaex-ml.
· · · Install guide · · ·
Try it now, no install
Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.
Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills/HEAD/skills/vaex/SKILL.md What I want: (describe your task here)
If Claude can't open the link, open it yourself and paste the contents instead.
↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.
Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
- Download the ZIP with the button below.
- In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
- Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
Install in Claude Code
Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code
Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart. Copy the skills/vaex folder from the GitHub repo K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/vaex/. When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.
Install with a command instead
git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git /tmp/scientific-agent-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/scientific-agent-skills/skills/vaex ~/.claude/skills/⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.
- Open a terminal.
- Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git - Create the skills folder:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills - Copy the skill:
cp -r scientific-agent-skills/skills/vaex ~/.claude/skills/ - Install Vaex on Python 3.10+:
uv pip install vaex(orpip install vaex). - Restart Claude Code and ask something like "analyze this huge CSV with vaex" to trigger the skill.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT