PyScript has been a success, Reeves says.

Since inexperienced users can get up and running so quickly (no navigating complex repos), it eliminates many barriers traditionally associated with data science work in a full-blown integrated development environment (IDE). It started in May 2022 when Anaconda launched PyScript, an open source framework that allows users to program in Python directly from the comfort of a Web browser. That’s when Anaconda started its education department, which has made a string of announcements over the past 12 months. “And that was with zero concentrated effort from us.”Ībout a year ago, the company’s leadership decided it was time to make a bigger effort to court the educational sector. “We have been lucky enough that students, professors, and early learners generally do come to Anaconda and download our tools,” Reeves says. There are already more than 10 million students using Anaconda’s eponymous package of Python and R tools for data science, according to Jessica Reeves, COO of the Austin, Texas company. But now the company behind the ubiquitous package is formally expanding into data science education and literacy with a series of new products and events, which will be bolstered with today’s announcement of its acquisition of EduBlocks. Good luck finding a Python-loving data scientist who is not familiar with it. With 35 million active users, Anaconda is among the most widely used data science software packages in the world.

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