Open-Source Security Challenges Persist
In Anaconda’s 2023 State of Data Science survey, we sought to understand better how open-source security (OSS) is used, how IT teams manage security, and how confident IT workers feel in their ability to identify and resolve vulnerabilities. Here’s a summary of what we learned about this topic in our survey, with 2,414 data practitioners, IT […]
Propelling Python Into the Next Decade: Anaconda’s OSS Vision
This year marks Anaconda’s 10th anniversary, and we’ve been taking time to reflect on all we’ve accomplished as a company and as part of the Python open-source development community—and to think about where we are going from here. There is still so much to do, and in this blog post I’ll try to provide a […]
Accelerating Innovation: Anaconda Announces Financing for the Future
As the most popular platform for Python data science, our team has always supported individual users and enterprises in their journey towards insight-bas…
State of Data Science 2022
State of Data Science 2022: Paving the Way for Innovation Anaconda’s 2022 State of Data Science report is here! As with years prior, we conducted a survey to gather demographic information about our community, ascertain how that community works, and collect insights into big questions and trends that are top of mind within the community. […]
My Open-Source Journey From Graduation to Maintainership
It was the beginning of 2020, and I had just arrived in France after earning my undergraduate degree in computer science from the University of São Paulo. I had been hired as the first developer on a new team at reciTAL—the first and only developer on the team, it turned out, because COVID-19 quickly forced […]
Introducing Numerically Speaking: The Anaconda Podcast
Anaconda is excited to introduce Numerically Speaking: The Anaconda Podcast, hosted by CEO Peter Wang. On the show, Peter and an impressive roster of guests including data science experts, creators of cutting-edge open-source tools, and executives pushing the boundaries of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) explore a variety of topics surrounding the dynamic world […]
There’s No Wrong Way to Become a Software Engineer: Part 2
Check out part 1 of our “There’s No Wrong Way to Become a Software Engineer” series. So you or someone you know is interested in becoming a software engineer or pursuing one of the many adjacent careers (e.g., data scientist, system administrator, tech support, etc.). Well, here’s the not-so-secret secret: There is no wrong way […]
Open-Source Tools for Graph Data Science
This could be you! Click here to submit an abstract for our Maker Blog Series. In this day and age, we use and are exposed to a vast amount of data. Most of this data is connected and features implicit or explicit relationships, and in such cases we can rely on relational databases for organization. […]
10 Years of Data Science Innovation: Anaconda’s Commitment to the Open-Source Python Community
For the last decade, Anaconda has helped define the guard rails and infrastructure of Python programming to empower a new generation of data science professionals and enthusiasts. Over the years, we’ve watched as the open-source Python community has burgeoned into a thriving network of creators, contributors, and dedicated maintainers. Because of the human ecology that […]
Grayskull – The Community-Developed conda Recipe Generator
This is part one of a two blog series. In this blog I talk about software packaging and conda. Head to part two to read about my work and experience during my internship at Anaconda. Once again attempts were made to, once again, clarify that conda is not Anaconda’s nickname. This time through tweets and […]