Flying high above the Pacific Ocean, Titus Brown is taking a deep dive into his students' research code. The long journey from Michigan State University in East Lansing to a conference in Melbourne, ...

As I noted in a recent post on reproducing data projects, notebooks have become popular tools for maintaining, sharing, and replicating long data science workflows. Much of that is due to the ...

Ethan White, an ecologist at Utah State University in Logan, discusses the software and tools that he finds most useful in his research. How would you describe your research? I use data generated by ...

While “writing it down” might seem like common sense, it wasn’t always the case. From the times of Ancient Greece, Plato tells a story of a worried Egyptian King, who, upon witnessing the invention of ...

Interactive Python modes are an easy way to learn new libraries. Scripting languages are easy to learn on their own because ...

Researchers and programmers know the Jupyter Notebook as a web-based environment where they can do computational research with native support for code, math and data visualization. By creating a more ...

Continuum Analytics, the creator and driving force behind Anaconda, the leading modern open source analytics platform powered by Python, announced several updates to the Anaconda platform that allow ...

Python Offers Quick Interactive Calculations . Python lets me run statistical calculations much faster than I could ever do by hand. When I started on my statistics course back in ...