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What is Anaconda?

02/21/2023 | by Patrick Fischer, M.Sc., Founder & Data Scientist: FDS

Anaconda is an open source platform developed by Continuum Analytics to simplify the management of data science projects and environments. It is a distribution of Python that provides a wide range of packages and tools for data scientists and developers.

Anaconda includes a wide variety of tools and libraries, including Python and its major packages such as NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib. It also includes tools for creating and managing virtual environments to isolate projects in separate environments and avoid dependency issues. In addition, it provides a graphical user interface that facilitates the installation, management and updating of packages and environments.

Anaconda is particularly useful for data science, as it includes many of the most popular data analysis and machine learning libraries, such as scikit-learn and TensorFlow. It can also run on multiple platforms, including Windows, macOS and Linux.

In addition to the free community version, Anaconda also offers a commercial version that provides advanced features and support. Anaconda is a widely used platform in data science and is used by a large community of developers and data scientists.

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