How Anaconda's data science platform will help IBM speed up enterprise machine learning adoption - TechRepublic

On Monday, IBM announced that it has partnered with Continuum Analytics to offer open data science platform Anaconda on IBM Cognitive Systems. Anaconda, which is powered by Python, will also integrate with IBM's PowerAI software for machine learning and deep learning, making it easier and faster for businesses to analyze and gain insights from data-intensive cognitive workloads. "Anaconda is an important capability for developers building cognitive solutions, and now it's available on IBM's high performance deep learning platform," said Bob Picciano, senior vice president of Cognitive Systems, in a press release. "Anaconda on IBM Cognitive Systems empowers developers and data scientists to build and deploy deep learning applications that are ready to scale." Deep learning--one of the fastest-growing fields of machine learning, the release noted--makes it possible to process datasets that include up to billions of elements, and to find predictive models in that data.