Opening Keynote: Peter Wang | AnacondaCON 2017

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Peter Wang,CTO, Co-founder

KEYNOTE

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Anaconda:13,000,000 downloads

conda: 25,000,000pkg installsEach month.

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"History has shown overwhelmingly that if you want to change the world for the better, you should deliver good tools for making it better, not policies for making it better.”

— Poul-Henning Kamp

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New Era of Data requires new kind of literacy.

Software will be commoditized

New services and business models will emerge

Anaconda is the open foundation for this.

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OPEN SOURCE• Not about licenses

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OPEN SOURCE• Not about licenses• Empowering people &

communities to innovate

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OPEN SOURCE• Not about licenses• Empowering people &

communities to innovate• Aligns us with users,

customers, innovators

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OPEN SOURCE• Not about licenses• Empowering people &

communities to innovate• Aligns us with users,

customers, innovators• “Software is eating

the world”

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Software yields data.

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Software yields data.

(Software consumes data, too.)

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Software yields data.

(Software consumes data, too.)

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TECHNOLOGY DISRUPTION

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DATA-CENTRIC COMPUTING

"The separation of data and programs is artificial – one cannot see the data without using a program and most programs are data driven.

So, it is paradoxical that the data management community has worked for 40 years to achieve something called data independence – a clear separation of programs from data.”

— Jim Gray

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OPEN DATA SCIENCE MEANS…

Success for users• Frictionless data analysis• Displacing legacy models

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OPEN DATA SCIENCE MEANS…

Success for users• Frictionless data analysis• Displacing legacy models

Success for their organizations• Transparency• Reproducibility• Accountability• Better questions -> Agile insight

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OPEN DATA SCIENCE MEANS…

Success for users• Frictionless data analysis• Displacing legacy models

Freedom to innovate

Success for their organizations• Transparency• Reproducibility• Accountability• Better questions -> Agile insight

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“Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come.”

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“All good art is political! There is none that isn’t.”

“And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, ‘We love the status quo.’”

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“All good art is political! There is none that isn’t.”

“And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, ‘We love the status quo.’”

#OpenDataScienceMeans #AnacondaCON

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“the flow of energy through a system acts to organize that system”

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