How We Made Conda Faster in 4.7
We’ve witnessed a lot of community grumbling about Conda’s speed, and we’ve experienced it ourselves. Thanks to a contract from NASA via the SBIR program, we’ve been able to dedicate a lot of time recently to optimizing Conda. We’d like to take this opportunity to discuss what we did, and what we think is left […]
Anaconda Recognized as a May 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms
The Anaconda team is excited to announce that we have been recognized as a May 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Data Science and Ma…
Intake: Discovering and Exploring Data in a Graphical Interface
Do you have data that you’d like people to be able to explore on their own? Are you always passing around snippets of code to load specific data files? T…
Anaconda 2019.03 Release
Windows is the most popular operating system in the world and consistently has 75% or more of the worldwide desktop market. According to the JetBrains Python Developers Survey, 49% of Python developers use Windows as their desktop operating system. Previous Windows releases of Anaconda Distribution included a command shell specifically for running conda and Python […]
3 Ways to Upskill in Python with DataCamp and Anaconda
DataCamp is proud to partner with Anaconda to offer eight courses on Conda and Python—in addition to the more than 70 total Python courses in DataCamp’s ever-expanding data science and analytics curriculum. Not sure where to start? Check out a few essential highlights below. Master Conda Essentials Learn how to manage packages and working environments […]
Announcing Public Anaconda Package Download Data
I’m very happy to announce that starting today, we will be publishing summarized download data for all conda packages served in the Anaconda Di…
Understanding and Improving Conda’s performance
Lately, we have been responding to issues about Conda’s speed. We’re working on it and we wanted to explain a few of the facets that we’re looking at to solve the problem. TL;DR: make it faster Are you: Using conda-forge? Use conda-metachannel to reduce conda’s problem size Using bioconda? Use conda-metachannel to reduce conda’s problem size See https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/issues/13774 for more info […]
End of Life (EOL) for Python 2.7 is coming. Are you ready?
We all knew it was coming. Back in 2014 when Guido van Rossum, Python’s creator and principal author, made the announcement, January 1, 2020 seemed pretty far away. Now we’re less than a year out from Python 2.7’s sunset, after which there’ll be absolutely no more support from the core Python team.Many utilized projects pledge […]
Intake released on Conda-Forge
Intake is a package for cataloging, finding and loading your data. It has been developed recently by Anaconda, Inc., and continues to gain new features. To read general information about Intake and how to use it, please refer to the documentation. Until recently, Intake was only available for installation via Conda and the intake channel […]
Anaconda Distribution 2018.12 Released
We are changing versioning in Anaconda Distribution from a major/minor version scheme to a year.month scheme. We made this change to differentiate between the open source Anaconda Distribution and Anaconda Enterprise, our managed data science platform. Conda, will continue to use a major/minor versioning scheme. The number of 32-bit x86 Linux packages downloaded are a […]