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Every Python developer knows some or all of these libraries, because they’re stable, reliable, and excellent at what they do.

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DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has awarded $3 million to software provider Continuum Analytics to help fund the development of Python’s data processing and visualization ...

Data science is often cited as one of the main reasons for Python's growing popularity. But while people are definitely using Python for data analysis and machine learning, not many of those using ...

Bodo.ai, a parallel compute platform for data workloads, is developing a compiler to make Python portable and efficient across multiple hardware platforms. It announced Wednesday a $14 million Series ...

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If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a messy spreadsheet of survey data, wondering how to make sense of it all, you’re not alone. From split headers to inconsistent blanks, the challenges of ...

More people will find their way to Python for data science workloads, but there’s a case to for making R and Python complementary, not competitive. As data science becomes critical to every ...