What’s new with fastparquet?
Martin Durant is a Senior Software Engineer at Anaconda. In this blog post, he details fastparquet’s background, improvement plan, dependencies, and upgrades. Read on to learn how Martin has worked to better the fastparquet user experience and read-side performance. Over the last six months, I have put considerable effort into modernizing and improving fastparquet, the […]
Pyston Team Joins Anaconda to Expand Open-Source Project Development
We’re excited to announce that the Pyston team has joined Anaconda to continue the open-source development of their optimizing Python interpreter. Kevin Modzelewski and Marius Wachtler will join Anaconda’s team of funded OSS developers, alongside our contributors to Dask, Numba, Bokeh, and many other projects. What is Pyston? Pyston is a fork of the standard […]
How OpenEye Scientific Leverages Anaconda to Power its Cloud-Native Molecular Design Platform
OpenEye Scientific came to Anaconda because it needed a trusted and reliable solution for managing Python environments in its Orion® platform. OpenEye Scientific is an industry leader in computational molecular design, based on decades of delivering rapid, robust, and scalable software, toolkits, and technology and design services. Its scientific, physics-based approach to molecular design historically […]
State of Data Science 2021: Becoming “Essential,” Though Untapped Potential Remains
In last year’s State of Data Science report, we looked at how the field of data science was moving from hype toward maturity. It was perhaps inevitable that a profession dubbed the “sexiest job of the 21st century” back in 2012 would find itself at the center of a hype bubble in subsequent years. But […]
A Python Data Scientist’s Guide to the Apple Silicon Transition
Even if you are not a Mac user, you have likely heard Apple is switching from Intel CPUs to their own custom CPUs, which they refer to collectively as “Apple Silicon.” The last time Apple changed its computer architecture this dramatically was 15 years ago when they switched from PowerPC to Intel CPUs. As a […]
The Benefits of Mirroring the Anaconda Repository
You may have heard the term “mirroring” tossed around in discussions about open-source package repositories. What exactly is mirroring, and h…
Scikit-learn Speed-up with Intel and Anaconda
This post was co-authored by Anthony DiPietro, Software Engineer, Anaconda and Kirill Petrov, Machine Learning Engineer, Intel.
How to Get Involved in Open Source: A Roadmap for Beginners
A recent report from Red Hat on the State of Enterprise Open Source found that 90% of IT leader respondents use enterprise open source in their organizations, compared to 83% and 89%, respectively, in the previous two reports. Additionally, The 2020 Linux Foundation Open-Source Jobs Report found that 77% of respondents, consisting of 175 hiring […]
I Have an Anaconda Nucleus Account – Now What?
Please note that since the publication of this post, Anaconda Nucleus has been renamed Anaconda Platform. Nucleus is defined as the central and most important part of an object, movement, or group, forming the basis for its activity and growth. At Anaconda, we believe that the data science and open-source community are at the core […]
How Businesses Can Support Open-Source Communities
Open-source software, at its core, is built on contributions from the community. Open source relies on community members to develop packages, flag bugs, …