If you wanna try a different API, take a look at Elixir Explorer:

https://hexdocs.pm/explorer/exploring_explorer.html

It runs on top of Polars so you get those speed gains, but uses the Elixir programming language. This gives the benefit of a simple finctional syntax w/ pipelines & whatnot.

It also benefits from the excellent Livebook (a Jupyter alternative specific to Elixir) ecosystem, which provides all kinds of benefits.