Scale your pandas workflow with Modin – no rewrite required
This post was authored by Vasilij Litvinov, AI Frameworks Engineer, Intel. Introduction AI and data science are rapidly advancing, which brings an ever-increasing amount of data to the table and enables us to derive ideas and solutions that continue to grow more complex every day. But on the other hand, we see that these advances […]
Why Data Visualization is One of the Hardest but Most Important Tasks
Data visualization is an important part of a data scientist’s work—a picture is worth a thousand words! Even though we live in an era of big …
What’s new with fastparquet?
Martin Durant is a Senior Software Engineer at Anaconda. In this blog post, he details fastparquet’s background, improvement plan, dependencies, and upgrades. Read on to learn how Martin has worked to better the fastparquet user experience and read-side performance. Over the last six months, I have put considerable effort into modernizing and improving fastparquet, the […]
How to Get Involved in Open Source: A Roadmap for Beginners
A recent report from Red Hat on the State of Enterprise Open Source found that 90% of IT leader respondents use enterprise open source in their organizations, compared to 83% and 89%, respectively, in the previous two reports. Additionally, The 2020 Linux Foundation Open-Source Jobs Report found that 77% of respondents, consisting of 175 hiring […]
The Ongoing Journey of AAPI Representation in Tech
This year’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month comes at a pivotal time for the community. On the one hand, there has never been more public dialogue about diversity and inclusion, including those issues affecting the AAPI community. Yet, we have also seen a troubling rise in violence and prejudice against Asian Americans in […]
Why Organizations Should Invest in a Chief Data Officer
Having a C-Suite Data Leader Is Valuable, Whether You’re a Business or the U.S. Government As more businesses have embraced the value of data-driven decision-making, we’ve seen an increase in C-suite data leadership titles like “Chief Data Officer” (CDO) or “Chief Data Scientist.” In some ways, the scope of these roles is narrower than the […]
New Year’s resolutions for data scientists in 2021
The start of a new year is a popular time to recalibrate habits and set goals for improvement, both personally and professionally. First, it’s helpful to take stock of where things stand, in order to hone in on potential areas for betterment. In data science, the past year represented another step forward in the maturation […]
What’s to come in 2021: 5 predictions for the future of data science and AI/ML
Since our founding in 2012, we’ve set out to create a movement that brings together data science practitioners, enterprises, and the open-source co…
Behind the Code of Dask and pandas: Q&A with Tom Augspurger
Data science and related fields have been born in and pushed forward by open-source projects. Open-source communities allow for people to work together t…
Behind the Code of HoloViz: Q&A with Sr. Software Engineer Philipp Rudiger
Data science and related fields have been born in and pushed forward by open-source projects. Open-source communities allow for people to work together to solve larger problems. As stewards of the data science community, we believe it is important to go behind the lines of code to shine a light on those doing the work […]