Anaconda included in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms
Gartner recently released its 2018 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms, featuring Anaconda for the first time. For those unfam…
March 2018 Kubernetes Security Vulnerabilities and Anaconda Enterprise
The Anaconda team tracks security vulnerabilities and CVEs via the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) on an ongoing basis. Our team is committed to th…
Anaconda Repository Changes Afoot
In August 2017, Continuum Analytics announced it is now Anaconda, Inc. Here at Anaconda, we are all excited about the change, and have spent the last several months switching everything over to the Anaconda name. One of the last big changes we need to make is to switch our default conda repository from https://repo.continuum.io to […]
VS Code in Anaconda Distribution 5.1
A few months ago, Anaconda, Inc., creator of the world’s most popular Python data science platform, announced a partnership with Microsoft that included providing Anaconda Distribution users easy access to Visual Studio Code (VS Code). We are pleased to announce that, with the February 15th release of Anaconda Distribution 5.1, this goal is now a […]
Credit Modeling with Dask
I’ve been working with a large retail bank on their credit modeling system. We’re doing interesting work with Dask to manage complex computations (…
Easy Distributed Training with Joblib and Dask
This past week, I had a chance to visit some of the scikit-learn developers at Inria in Paris. It was a fun and productive week, and I’m thankful to them…
The Case for Numba in Community Code
The numeric Python community should consider adopting Numba more widely within community code. Numba is strong in performance and usability, but historically weak in ease of installation and community trust. This blog post discusses these strengths and weaknesses from the perspective of an OSS library maintainer. It uses other more technical blog posts written on […]
How to Get Ready for the Release of conda 4.4
As the year winds down it’s time to say out with the old and in with the new. Well, conda is no different. What does conda 4.4 have in store for you? Say goodbye to “source activate” in conda. That is so 2017. With conda 4.4 you can snappily “conda activate” and “conda deactivate” your […]
Anaconda Training: A Learning Path for Data Scientists
Update: September 27, 2022 Are you looking for data science training from Anaconda? Whether you’re just starting to learn data science, dabbling in Python for fun, or doing data science for work, Anaconda Nucleus has something for you. We’re incredibly excited to announce the launch of Anaconda Learning and Anaconda Notebooks! Anaconda Notebooks allows you […]
Utilizing the New Compilers in Anaconda Distribution 5
Part of what made the recent release of Anaconda Distribution 5 so exciting was our switch from OS-provided compiler tools to our own Anaconda toolsets. This change has allowed us to make major steps forward in the capabilities of our compilers, specifically regarding security and performance. In this post, we’ll show you how to use […]