Canaries Can Tweet: Preview New Features with Conda Canary
Conda-canary is the pre-defaults-release channel for conda — it has the most recent version of conda. On occasion it will also have the latest pre-defa…
Enterprises Need to Think Differently about Data Science. Here’s How.
Companies that are data science literate make and communicate decisions on the basis of real data models, and not merely instinct or tradition. They welc…
Moving Conda Environments
Conda is known as a package manager for Python and R packages produced by Anaconda, Inc. and conda-forge, the open-source community for conda Python packages. In addition to managing packages, Conda is also an environment manager. If you’re new to Python, environments create an isolated environment to manage dependencies in a project. Because the Python […]
4 Machine Learning Use Cases in the Automotive Sector
From parts suppliers to vehicle manufacturers, service providers to rental car companies, the automotive and related mobility industries stand to gain significantly from implementing machine learning at scale. We see the big automakers investing in proof-of-concept projects at various stages, while disruptors in the field of autonomous driving are trying to build entirely new businesses […]
Accessing Remote Data with a Generalized File System
Originally created for the needs of Dask, we have spun out a general file system implementation and specification, to provide all users with simple access to many local, cluster, and remote storage media. Dask and Intake have moved to use this new package: fsspec. Introduction For context, we are talking about the low-level business of […]
Getting Started with Machine Learning in the Enterprise
Machine learning (ML) is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) in which data scientists use algorithms and statistical models to predict outcomes and…
What’s in a Name? Clarifying the Anaconda Metapackage
The name “Anaconda” is overloaded in many ways. There’s our company, Anaconda, Inc., the Anaconda Distribution, the anaconda metapackage, Anaconda Enterprise, and several other, sometimes completely unrelated projects (like Red Hat’s Anaconda). Here we hope to clarify two of those – the difference between the Anaconda Distribution and the anaconda metapackage. The Anaconda Distribution is […]
4 Ways Financial Firms Put Machine Learning to Work
Several industry giants in the finance sector are well on their way to implementing machine learning technology that improves operations and guides strat…
Announcing the Anaconda 2019.07 Release
The midyear release of Anaconda Distribution is available for download. The Anaconda 2019.07 release focuses on Conda performance. We’ve heard your frustration about lengthy install times for packages when using Conda, and the Conda 4.7 release aimed to address those concerns. The short version is that Conda install times have decreased by more than half […]
Why We Removed the “Free” Channel in Conda 4.7
One of the changes we made in Conda 4.7 was the removal of a software collection called “free” from the default channel configuration. The “free” channel is our collection of packages prior to the switch in recipes/compilers that we did for the Anaconda Distribution 5.0 release. The current primary channel, “main,” is also totally free […]