Unplugging in a Remote World
All around the globe, we’re experiencing the lasting impacts of Covid-19 on our personal and professional lives. Making small talk, attending social gatherings, traveling, going to restaurants, and, of course, working, are just some of the behaviors that seem to have permanently changed. With regard to the latter, many of us have shifted to a […]
Spine-Tingling Data Science Tales From Beyond the Desk
Data represents one of the most important competitive advantages in modern business, and the increasing reliance on data throughout decision-making proce…
Going Back-End-Less With PyScript
When I was working as developer advocate at Read the Docs, one of the major themes we observed after talking to many scientific users was friction when w…
Podcast: From Enthusiastic User to pandas Maintainer
Show Notes On this episode of Numerically Speaking: The Anaconda Podcast, host Peter Wang welcomes pandas maintainer Jeff Reback, Managing Director at Two Sigma. Jeff began his career on Wall Street in the 1990’s and used Perl for a long time. He developed an interest in Python in the 2000’s. He was then quickly drawn to pandas and began to […]
Focus on Open-Source Security This Cybersecurity Awareness Month
The explosion of open-source software (OSS) in the enterprise prompts a re-examining of the tools and processes that secure the technology critical to modern businesses. Open-source security is on everyone’s mind these days thanks to breaches like Log4j and global conflict stemming from the war in Ukraine. We’ve seen in recent years how small vulnerabilities […]
Propelling Python Into the Next Decade: Anaconda’s OSS Vision
This year marks Anaconda’s 10th anniversary, and we’ve been taking time to reflect on all we’ve accomplished as a company and as part of the Python open-source development community—and to think about where we are going from here. There is still so much to do, and in this blog post I’ll try to provide a […]
State of Data Science 2022
State of Data Science 2022: Paving the Way for Innovation Anaconda’s 2022 State of Data Science report is here! As with years prior, we conducted a survey to gather demographic information about our community, ascertain how that community works, and collect insights into big questions and trends that are top of mind within the community. […]
My Open-Source Journey From Graduation to Maintainership
It was the beginning of 2020, and I had just arrived in France after earning my undergraduate degree in computer science from the University of São Paulo. I had been hired as the first developer on a new team at reciTAL—the first and only developer on the team, it turned out, because COVID-19 quickly forced […]
There’s No Wrong Way to Become a Software Engineer: Part 1
Check out part 2 of our “There’s No Wrong Way to Become a Software Engineer” series. Hi! My name is Bianca Henderson, and I’m a software engineer at Anaconda. When people think about developers, most tend to think about computer science graduates or people who are super good at math; as a single mother and […]
FOSS Fridays at Anaconda
Anaconda is an important part of the Open Source ecosystem. A significant percentage of our team contributes full-time to open-source projects, but it is a passion for most of the organization. What are FOSS Fridays The idea is to take a break from normal teamwork to contribute to any open-source project that we would like […]