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How Machine Learning Will Generate up to $2 Trillion in Value for the Manufacturing Industry

Today manufacturers must create high-quality products as efficiently and consistently as possible to remain competitive. With the increasing price of raw materials, skilled labor shortages, and rising competition, this can be difficult. Fortunately, machine learning and IoT technology are making efficiency and productivity gains a reality. According to McKinsey & Company, AI has the potential […]

Get Python Package Download Statistics with Condastats

Hundreds of millions of Python packages are downloaded using Conda every month. That’s why we are excited to announce the release of condastats, a conda statistics API with Python interface and Command Line interface. Now anyone can use this tool to conduct research on usage statistics for Conda packages. This project is inspired by pypistats, which is […]

Introducing Remote Content Caching with FSSpec

Fsspec is a library which acts as a common pythonic interface to many file system-like storage backends, such as remote (e.g., SSH, HDFS) and cloud (e.g., GCS, S3) services. In this article, we will present its new ability to cache remote content, keeping a local copy for faster lookup after the initial read. Similar text […]

What Can AI Teach Us about Bias and Fairness?

By: Peter Wang & Natalie Parra-Novosad As researchers, journalists, and many others have discovered, machine learning algorithms can deliver biased results. One notorious example is ProPublica’s discovery of bias in a software called COMPAS used by the U.S. court systems to predict an offender’s likelihood of re-offending. ProPublica’s investigators discovered the software’s algorithm was telling […]

How to Restore Anaconda after Update to MacOS Catalina

MacOS Catalina was released on October 7, 2019, and has been causing quite a stir for Anaconda users. Apple has decided that Anaconda’s default install location in the root folder is not allowed. It moves that folder into a folder on your desktop called “Relocated Items,” in the Security folder. If you’ve used the .pkg […]

Anaconda Enters a New Chapter

Today I am excited to announce that I am stepping into the role of CEO at Anaconda. Although I am a founder of the company and have previously served as president, this marks the first time I am serving in the role of chief executive. The entire world is undergoing a revolution in computation and […]