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Anaconda Bolsters Data Literacy with Moves Into Education

With 35 million active users, Anaconda is among the most widely used data science software packages in the world. Good luck finding a Python-loving data scientist who is not familiar with it. But now the company behind t Read more…

Snowpark for Python Now Generally Available

Snowflake and Anaconda recently announced the general availability of Snowpark for Python, a solution that embeds Anaconda’s data and machine learning packages within Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Previously available i Read more…

Anaconda Unveils New Coding Notebooks and Training Portal

Data science platform Anaconda has announced a new suite of products for its Nucleus online community, including a new data notebook and training portal. Anaconda Notebooks is a cloud hosted, browser based JupyterLab Read more…

Anaconda Unveils PyScript, the ‘Minecraft for Software Development’

During his keynote at PyCon 2022, Anaconda CEO Peter Wang unveiled a new project: PyScript. PyScript is described as a framework that uses a mixture of Python and standard HTML to allow users to create Python applicat Read more…

Anaconda’s Commercial Fee Is Paying Off, CEO Says

Anaconda created a stir over a year ago when it began charging large commercial users a fee for access to its popular collection of Python tools. The change, it said, was necessary to offset the costs of maintaining a la Read more…

Data Science and AI Predictions for 2022

The pace of technological change increased in 2021, and if history is any guide, will continue to accelerate in 2022. At the leading edge of high tech are data science and artificial intelligence, two disciplines that pr Read more…

Anaconda’s 2021 State of Data Science Report Highlights Support for Open Source, Impacts from COVID-19

Data science platform provider Anaconda has released its 2021 State of Data Science report. From April to May 2021, the researchers surveyed 4,299 respondents from over 140 countries, diving into the changes, trends, and Read more…

Data Prep Still Dominates Data Scientists’ Time, Survey Finds

Data scientists spend about 45% of their time on data preparation tasks, including loading and cleaning data, according to a survey of data scientists conducted by Anaconda. The company also analyzed the gap between what Read more…

An Enterprise Guide to a Secure Data Science Pipeline

Open source is the backbone driving digital innovation (Gartner, 2019). It's crucial to many of today’s leading-edge digital fields, including data science and machine learning. No single technology vendor can outm Read more…

Equipping the Enterprise for Deep Learning: What IT Leaders Need to Know

  Deep learning is a form of artificial intelligence that utilizes neural networks, which are computing systems inspired by the human brain and nervous system — essentially a multi-layered “mesh” architectu Read more…

Anaconda Enterprise Now Supports GPU Clusters

Organizations that need to train machine learning models on massive amounts of data may be interested in the latest release of Anaconda Enterprise, which adds support for training on GPU clusters. Customers running An Read more…

Big Data Backlash: A Rights Movement Gains Steam

In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica data mining scandal, there's a growing chorus of AI leaders calling for a data rights movement that would overhaul the ownership structure for digital assets. In addition to pr Read more…

Microsoft, Anaconda Expand Python Partnership

Microsoft and Python data science platform vendor Anaconda have extended their partnership by adding the software giant’s code editor to the latest Anaconda distribution. The addition of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Read more…

Anaconda Taps Containers to Simplify Data Science Deployments

Anaconda (formerly Continuum Analytics) today unveiled a new release of its commercial data science platform that leverages Docker and Kubernetes containerization technology to allow data scientists to deploy models to p Read more…

IBM Broadens Collaboration on Anaconda

IBM, which recently extended support for the Anaconda data science platform to its open source mainframe, takes another step this week by offering the data platform on its Cognitive Systems platform in collaboration with Read more…

Why Anaconda’s Data Science Tent Is So Big–And Getting Bigger

With more than 13 million downloads to date, Anaconda is blossoming into a real phenomenon in a crowded data science field. What made the collection of mostly Python-based tools so popular to data hackers—a dedication Read more…

Inside IBM ML: Real-Time Analytics On the Mainframe

"Bring the compute to the data," is a common refrain you hear in the big data age. Now IBM is heading that advice with today's launch of IBM Machine Learning for z/OS, a new offering due this quarter that will bring Wats Read more…

Anaconda Gets Big Iron Support From IBM

IBM is expanding its embrace of big data analytics to include support on its open source mainframe for the Anaconda stack used by Python programmers. The company (NYSE: IBM) announced Thursday (Feb. 9) that it is collaborating with Anaconda developer Continuum Analytics and Rocket Software to host the open source analytics platform on IBM z/OS mainframes. Read more…

Open Data Science Presents Business Opportunity to New Continuum CEO

Continuum Analytics turned some heads last month when it announced the appointment of IT industry veteran Scott Collison to be its new CEO. With stints running departments of Microsoft, VMware, and Salesforce.com, Collis Read more…

Drug Developer Wraps Anaconda Around Gene Data

An open source data visualization framework running on the Anaconda data science platform will be used by a drug discovery company focusing on cures for rare genetic diseases. Continuum Analytics, developer of the Bok Read more…

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