5 Expert Predictions for AI/ML and Data Science in 2022
In 2021, the trend toward increasing innovation, adoption, and investment in AI and data science applications continued unabated, even as industry growing pains around issues like ethics and bias persist. For many, 2021 was an exciting year when data science possibilities matured into more clear-eyed views of the potential positive business impacts. There’s never been […]
Debunking the Biggest Myths in Data Science
As data science matures, it’s shedding some of its mystique, which is a good thing in many ways. With more organizations seeing returns on their investments in data science capabilities, business leaders are gaining a more realistic view of the field. But while some may have developed a more nuanced understanding of what data science […]
Anaconda Individual Edition 2021.11
Please note that since the publication of this post, we’ve repositioned our product offerings into Anaconda plans. Individual Edition is now reflected by our Free plan, Commercial Edition is now reflected by our Pro plan, Team Edition is now reflected by our Business plan, and Enterprise Edition is now reflected by our Enterprise plan. Click […]
Keeping your Conda Environments Safe and Secure with your Anaconda Nucleus Account
A little over a year ago, we launched our Nucleus community to connect data science practitioners with the developers of their favorite Python packages, learners in the community, and each other. Today, I’m here to talk about some new capabilities we’ve just added to Nucleus and Anaconda Navigator that enable practitioners to stay more connected. […]
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 […]