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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…

Is Your Smartphone Spying On You?

That little phone in your pocket or purse is generating a massive amount of data – much more than you probably realize. And thanks to services offered by the phone makers and network providers like Apple and Verizon, i Read more…

GOAI Publishes Python Data Frame for GPU Analytics

A group of data analytics vendors joined forces today at the GPU Technology Conference to create the GPU Open Analytics Initiative (GOAI) with the goal of fostering the development of a community of data science and deep 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…

Hadoop at Strata: Not Exactly ‘Failure,’ But It Is Complicated

Has Hadoop failed to deliver the goods? That was a question on the minds of Strata + Hadoop World attendees last week, with opinions expressed both pro and con. Regardless of your stance on that question, it's clear that Read more…

The Future (of Data Products) Is Wide Open

The big data revolution has given us powerful new products that have an uncanny capability to anticipate our needs and desires. But according to Fast Forward Labs founder and CEO Hilary Mason, we've barely scratched on t Read more…

Data Opportunities Slipping Through the Cracks

If you're struggling to make the most of your data, take heart in the fact that you're not alone. A large percentage of companies are not fully executing on their big data, data science, and IoT strategies, several recen 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…

Will Hardware Drive Data Innovation Now?

The world has witnessed an unparalleled flowering of technical innovation that has impacted billions of people over the past decade, much of it driven by creative breakthroughs in software. But now tech leaders are looki 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…