In this video presentation, our good friend Jon Krohn, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula, explores the origins of NumPy and SciPy with their creator, Dr. Travis Oliphant. Dr. Oliphant shares his journey from personal need to global impact, the challenges overcome, and the future of these essential Python libraries in scientific computing and data science.
Video Highlights: NumPy, SciPy and the Economics of Open-Source — with Dr. Travis Oliphant
March 16, 2024 by Leave a Comment
SQream Announces Strategic Integration for Powerful Big Data Analytics with Dataiku
February 9, 2024 by Leave a Comment
SQream, the scalable GPU data analytics platform, announced a strategic integration with Dataiku, the platform for everyday AI. This collaboration brings together SQream’s best-in-class big data analytics technology with Dataiku’s flexible and scalable data science and machine learning (ML) platform.
Emerging Tools and Frameworks in AI: A Comparative Analysis
November 24, 2023 by Leave a Comment
In this contributed article, graphic designer and content writer, Erika Ballo delves into some emerging tools and frameworks in AI, comparing their strengths, usability, and ideal use cases.
Flatfile Acquires AI Start-up Chatcsv Inc., Further Expanding Leadership in AI-assisted Data Exchange
October 24, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Flatfile, a pioneer of AI-assisted data exchange, announced the acquisition of AI start-up Chatcsv Inc. With breakout growth in just a few months since its release, ChatCSV already has thousands of users. From global enterprises such as Procter & Gamble and McKinsey to technology companies such as Zapier, Quora and Vimeo, companies rely on ChatCSV for quick, contextual insight into CSV files and spreadsheets.
Starburst Introduces Python DataFrame Support for Complex Data Transformation and Data Application Workloads
September 7, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Starburst, the data lake analytics platform, today extended their support for the most widely used multi-purpose, high-level programming language, Python with PyStarburst, as well as announced a new integration with the open source Python library, Ibis, built in collaboration with composable data systems builder and Ibis maintainer, Voltron Data.
UMass Amherst Computer Scientists Use AI to Accelerate Computing Speed by Thousands of Times
August 28, 2023 by Leave a Comment
A team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Emery Berger, recently unveiled a prize-winning Python profiler called Scalene. Programs written with Python are notoriously slow—up to 60,000 times slower than code written in other programming languages—and Scalene works to efficiently identify exactly where Python is lagging, allowing programmers to troubleshoot and streamline their code for higher performance.
Anaconda Distribution for Python Brings Data Science to Hundreds of Millions of Microsoft Excel Users
August 24, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Anaconda Inc., the provider of one of the world’s most widely used and trusted data science and AI platforms, announced the beta availability of Anaconda Distribution for Python in Excel, a new integration with Microsoft Excel. Anaconda’s Python distribution is fully embedded and integrated into the Excel grid toolboxes for manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing data and for advanced machine learning and AI. Python in Excel is currently rolling out to Public Preview and is available for Microsoft Insiders.
Lightning AI Releases PyTorch Lightning 2.0 and a New Open Source Library for Lightweight Scaling of Machine Learning Models
March 15, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Lightning AI, the company accelerating the development of an AI-powered world, today announced the general availability of PyTorch Lightning 2.0, the company’s flagship open source AI framework used by more than 10,000 organizations to quickly and cost-efficiently train and scale machine learning models. The new release introduces a stable API, offers a host of powerful features with a smaller footprint, and is easier to read and debug.
Video Highlights: Distributed Python with Ray
March 5, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This is an introductory and hands-on guided tutorial of Ray2.0 that covers an introductory, hands-on coding tour through the core features of Ray, which provides powerful yet easy-to-use design patterns for implementing distributed systems in Python.
The Anyscale Platform™, built on Ray, Introduces New Breakthroughs in AI Development, Experimentation and AI Scaling
November 29, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Anyscale, the company behind Ray open source, the unified compute framework for scaling any machine learning or Python workload, announced several new advancements on the Anyscale Platform™ at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, NV. The new capabilities extend beyond the advantages of Ray open source to make AI/ML and Python workload development, experimentation, and scaling even easier for developers.
