What’s in a Name? Clarifying the Anaconda Metapackage
The name “Anaconda” is overloaded in many ways. There’s our company, Anaconda, Inc., the Anaconda Distribution, the anaconda metapackage, Anaconda Enterprise, and several other, sometimes completely unrelated projects (like Red Hat’s Anaconda). Here we hope to clarify two of those – the difference between the Anaconda Distribution and the anaconda metapackage. The Anaconda Distribution is […]
4 Ways Financial Firms Put Machine Learning to Work
Several industry giants in the finance sector are well on their way to implementing machine learning technology that improves operations and guides strat…
Why We Removed the “Free” Channel in Conda 4.7
One of the changes we made in Conda 4.7 was the removal of a software collection called “free” from the default channel configuration. The “free” channel is our collection of packages prior to the switch in recipes/compilers that we did for the Anaconda Distribution 5.0 release. The current primary channel, “main,” is also totally free […]
Conda 4.6 Release
The latest set of major Conda improvements are here, with version 4.6. This release has been stewing for a while and has the feature list to show for it. Let’s walk through some of the major ones. Activation script initialization Conda 4.4 introduced new scripts that make activation behavior uniform across operating systems. Where you […]
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…
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 […]
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 […]
Using Pip in a Conda Environment
Unfortunately, issues can arise when conda and pip are used together to create an environment, especially when the tools are used back-to-back multiple times, establishing a state that can be hard to reproduce. Most of these issues stem from that fact that conda, like other package managers, has limited abilities to control packages it did […]
Who You Gonna Call? Halloween Tips & Treats to Protect You from Ghosts, Gremlins and Software Vulnerabilities
Happy Halloween, readers. At Anaconda, we’re not too scared about things that go bump in the night. We’ve examined the data and concluded th…