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 […]
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 […]