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 ...

When it comes to analyzing big data, software packages such as Hadoop or the R statistical language come readily to mind. But at least one company, AppNexus, also relies on the Python programming ...

Python has become the go-to language for applications handling large amounts of data. As mentioned above, one of the stalwarts in this area is the library “Pandas”, which is used to extract ...

The Python community wanted a more Pythonic way to scale their code while also reducing the complexity of shifting code from a single machine to distributed environments. This demand has seen the ...

“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 ...

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