Essential Open-Source Library pandas Awarded CZI Grant to Further Development
We’re pleased to announce that pandas, the open-source library providing high-performance data structures for tabular data analysis, has received grant …
Announcing Anaconda Distribution 2019.10
We are pleased to announce the release of Anaconda Distribution 2019.10!
As there were some significant changes in the previous Anaconda Distribution 20…
How to Restore Anaconda after Update to MacOS Catalina
MacOS Catalina was released on October 7, 2019, and has been causing quite a stir for Anaconda users. Apple has decided that Anaconda’s default install location in the root folder is not allowed. It moves that folder into a folder on your desktop called “Relocated Items,” in the Security folder. If you’ve used the .pkg […]
Canaries Can Tweet: Preview New Features with Conda Canary
Conda-canary is the pre-defaults-release channel for conda — it has the most recent version of conda. On occasion it will also have the latest pre-defa…
4 Machine Learning Use Cases in the Automotive Sector
From parts suppliers to vehicle manufacturers, service providers to rental car companies, the automotive and related mobility industries stand to gain significantly from implementing machine learning at scale. We see the big automakers investing in proof-of-concept projects at various stages, while disruptors in the field of autonomous driving are trying to build entirely new businesses […]
Getting Started with Machine Learning in the Enterprise
Machine learning (ML) is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) in which data scientists use algorithms and statistical models to predict outcomes and…
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 […]