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The Ongoing Journey of AAPI Representation in Tech

This year’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month comes at a pivotal time for the community. On the one hand, there has never been more public dialogue about diversity and inclusion, including those issues affecting the AAPI community. Yet, we have also seen a troubling rise in violence and prejudice against Asian Americans in […]

Announcing Anaconda Support on AWS Graviton2

Today, Anaconda, the world’s most popular Python distribution platform for data science and machine learning, in collaboration with AWS, is happy to announce the general availability of Anaconda for Linux on the aarch64 (arm64) platform optimized for Amazon Web Services’ Graviton2 processors. Graviton2 processors are custom built by AWS using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores. Graviton2-based […]

Anaconda Individual Edition 2021.05

There were also quite a few other bug fixes and improvements – to see the full list please visit the Anaconda Navigator 2.0.3 release notes here. Beyond package updates, you’ll now find that all available shells are now initialized as part of the default macOS .pkg installation. The default had been bash only – but […]

Anaconda Content Trust: Conda Signature Verification

Anaconda is pleased to announce the release of conda signature verification. This feature preserves conda install integrity by verifying package artifacts and metadata against a chain of trust. Benefits of conda signature verification When conda verifies artifact signatures, it assures users that packages they are about to install are exactly as they were when produced […]

Data Scientists: Bring the Narrative to the Forefront

This article was first featured in TechCrunch’s Extra Crunch. You can read the original piece on their website here. By 2025, 463 exabytes of data will be created each day, according to some estimates. (For perspective, one exabyte of storage could hold 50,000 years of DVD-quality video.) It’s now easier than ever to translate physical […]

There Is No Data – Only Frozen Models

Here’s a truth that I think is critically important, but vastly under-recognized in today’s data-driven world: there is no such thing as “data.” That might seem like an odd claim for the leader of a data science company to make, so let me explain. What we consider to be “raw” data is in fact information […]

Why Organizations Should Invest in a Chief Data Officer

Having a C-Suite Data Leader Is Valuable, Whether You’re a Business or the U.S. Government As more businesses have embraced the value of data-driven decision-making, we’ve seen an increase in C-suite data leadership titles like “Chief Data Officer” (CDO) or “Chief Data Scientist.” In some ways, the scope of these roles is narrower than the […]