Anaconda with Peter Wang

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) welcomes Peter Wang (@pwang) for a conversation about the Python ecosystem and the open-source communities that have built it. Peter is the creator of Anaconda, the near-essential Python distribution for scientific computing that makes managing packages a lot more manageable. In today’s episode, Peter offers a unique and powerful perspective on how to make the economics of open-source work for everyone. In this episode we discuss: The paradox of the PVM and Python’s packaging difficulties How Guido van Rossum implied permission for Anaconda and the open-source Python movement Python as the lingua franca of a new professional class Looking to Roblox for inspiration for a scientific computing creator community Giving back to open-source communities through the NumFOCUS Foundation Links: Anaconda NumFOCUS NumPy SciPy Enthought Jupyter TensorFlow MicroPython scikit-learn pandas Quansight Red Hat Roblox People mentioned: Travis Oliphant (@teoliphant) Fernando Pérez (@fperez_org) Brian Granger (@ellisonbg) Min Ragan-Kelley (@minrk) Guido van Rossum (@gvanrossum) James Currier (@JamesCurrier) Other episodes: NumPy & SciPy with Travis Oliphant TensorFlow with Rajat Monga