Anaconda Easy Button – Microsoft SQL Server and Python
Previously there were many twisty roads that you may have followed if you wanted to use Python on a client system to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server database, and not all of those roads would even get you to your destination. With the news that Microsoft SQL Server 2017 has increased support for Python, […]
Anaconda Joins Forces with Leading Companies to Further Innovate Open Data Science
In addition to announcing the formation of the GPU Open Analytics Initiative with H2O and MapD, today, we are pleased to announce an exciting collaborati…
Open Data Science is a Team Sport
As every March Madness fan knows, athletic talent and coaching are key, but it’s how they come together as a unit that determines a team’s su…
The Conda Configuration Engine for Power Users
Released last fall, conda 4.2 brought with it configuration superpowers. The capabilities are extensive, and they’re designed with conda power users, devops engineers, and sysadmins in mind. Configuration information comes from four basic sources: hard-coded defaults, configuration files, environment variables, and command-line arguments. Each time a conda process initializes, an operating context is built that […]
Announcing Anaconda Project: Data Science Project Encapsulation and Deployment, the Easy Way!
One year ago, we presented Anaconda and Docker: Better Together for Reproducible Data Science. In that blog post, we described our vision and a foundational approach to portable and reproducible data science using Anaconda and Docker. This approach embraced the philosophy of Open Data Science in which data scientists can connect the powerful data science […]
Self-Service Open Data Science: Custom Anaconda Management Packs for Hortonworks HDP and Apache Ambari
As part of our partnership with Hortonworks, we’re excited to announce a new self-service feature of the Anaconda platform that can be used to generate custom Anaconda management packs for the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) and Apache Ambari. This functionality is now available in the Anaconda platform as part of the Anaconda Scale and Anaconda […]
The Dominion: An Open Data Science Film
The inaugural AndacondaCON event was full of surprises. Personalized legos, delicious Texan BBQ, Anaconda “swag” and a preview of what might be the most dramatic, life-altering data science movie of all time: The Dominion. The Dominion tells the story of a world similar to ours. One full of possibilities but is being threatened by old […]
Coming of Age in 2017: A Tale of Open Source & Open Data Science
It’s not surprising that as the calendar changed to a new year, there were not just a few articles outlining predictions for 2017 – including what …
Anaconda 4.3 Released
We are happy to announce that Anaconda 4.3 has been released. Anaconda is the leading open data science platform powered by Python. Python 3.6.0 was released on December 23, 2016, and on the same day, we made conda binaries available for all major platforms. However, that did not mean that all Python packages had been […]
What is Conda Canary?
With the release of conda 4.2.0, we started a new pre-release program called conda canary. The name, inspired by Chrome Canary, is a “canary in a coal mine” reference. Every new conda release is posted to the canary channel before it goes live for general availability. Patch releases–for example 4.2.14 to 4.2.15–may only spend 24 […]