Anaconda Distribution 5.3.0 Released
We’re excited to announce the release of Anaconda Distribution 5.3.0! Anaconda Distribution is the world’s most popular and easiest way to le…
Introducing Skein: Deploy Python on Apache YARN the Easy Way
By Jim Crist *This post is reprinted with permission from Jim Crist’s blog. The original post can be found here. In this post, I introduce Skein, a new tool and library for deploying applications on Apache YARN. I provide background on why this work was necessary, and demonstrate deploying a simple Python application on a YARN cluster. Introduction […]
Intake: Taking the Pain out of Data Access
By Martin Durant, Anaconda Software Engineer
We are pleased to announce the release of Intake, a simple data access layer and cataloging system.
This ar…
Machines Learning about Humans Learning about Machines Learning
I had the great honor and pleasure of presenting the first tutorial at AnacondaCon 2018, on machine learning with scikit-learn. I spoke to a full room of…
Deploying Machine Learning Models is Hard, But It Doesn’t Have to Be
With free, open source tools like Anaconda Distribution, it has never been easier for individual data scientists to analyze data and build machine learning models on their laptops. So why does deriving actual business value from machine learning remain elusive for many organizations? Because while it’s easy for data scientists to build powerful models on […]
Anaconda Distribution 5.2 Released
We’re excited to announce the release of Anaconda Distribution 5.2! With over 6 million users, Anaconda Distribution is the world’s most popu…
CyberPandas: Extending Pandas with Richer Types
Over the past couple months, Anaconda has supported a major internal refactoring of pandas. The outcome is a new extension array interface that will enab…
March 2018 Kubernetes Security Vulnerabilities and Anaconda Enterprise
The Anaconda team tracks security vulnerabilities and CVEs via the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) on an ongoing basis. Our team is committed to th…
Anaconda Repository Changes Afoot
In August 2017, Continuum Analytics announced it is now Anaconda, Inc. Here at Anaconda, we are all excited about the change, and have spent the last sev…
The Case for Numba in Community Code
The numeric Python community should consider adopting Numba more widely within community code. Numba is strong in performance and usability, but historically weak in ease of installation and community trust. This blog post discusses these strengths and weaknesses from the perspective of an OSS library maintainer. It uses other more technical blog posts written on […]