opening keynote: peter wang | anacondacon 2017

#OpenDataScienceMeans #AnacondaCON

Peter Wang,CTO, Co-founder

KEYNOTE


Anaconda:13,000,000 downloads

conda: 25,000,000pkg installsEach month.


"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


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.


OPEN SOURCE• Not about licenses


OPEN SOURCE• Not about licenses• Empowering people &

communities to innovate



communities to innovate• Aligns us with users,

customers, innovators



communities to innovate• Aligns us with users,

customers, innovators• “Software is eating

the world”


Software yields data.


Software yields data.

(Software consumes data, too.)


TECHNOLOGY DISRUPTION


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


OPEN DATA SCIENCE MEANS…

Success for users• Frictionless data analysis• Displacing legacy models




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




Freedom to innovate

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


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


“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.’”


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

opening keynote: peter wang | anacondacon 2017

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