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 ...

At PyData, online-ad-platform company AppNexus will reveal how Python plays a critical role in its big data operations.

Python is finding its way into an ever-expanding set of use cases that fall into both the high performance computing and big data buckets.

Nvidia wants to extend the success of the GPU beyond graphics and deep learning to the full data science experience. Open source Python library Dask is the key to this.

“Python is a very easy language to learn for non-programmers,” said Peter Wang, president of Continuum Analytics. That’s important because most big-data analysts will probably not be ...