New Release: Anaconda Distribution 2022.10

The 2022.10 release of Anaconda Distribution features Qt support in Anaconda Navigator v2.3.1, full GUI support for macOS M1’s ARM64 architecture, Python 3.10, improved security protocols, and several package updates. 2022.10 is the last release that will support Python 3.7. Click here to access the latest Anaconda Distribution installer. We are pleased to announce the […]
Introducing Data Science Training and Cloud-Hosted Notebooks From Anaconda

This year, Anaconda surpassed a milestone—we now have over 30 million users worldwide. We watched our community grow as Python became the world&rsq…
Focus on Open-Source Security This Cybersecurity Awareness Month

The explosion of open-source software (OSS) in the enterprise prompts a re-examining of the tools and processes that secure the technology critical to modern businesses. Open-source security is on everyone’s mind these days thanks to breaches like Log4j and global conflict stemming from the war in Ukraine. We’ve seen in recent years how small vulnerabilities […]
Create an Intermittent Fan Controller With Python

Background I simply cannot sleep with a fan constantly blowing on me. My husband can not sleep without a fan on him. Initially, I thought we’d never be able to find a happy medium, since ceiling fans are designed to be either on or off all night. I realized that if I could find a […]
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 […]