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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

It is a handy tool for keeping a record of data explorations, creating charts, styling text and sharing the results of that work. For data analysis, the cornerstone package in Python is “Pandas”.

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