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CEO Travis Oliphant, CTO Peter Wang and VP of Product & CMO Michele Chambers, among other experts, will discuss the latest advancements in the Big Data and Analytics industry
AUSTIN, TX—February 22, 2016—Continuum Analytics, the creator and driving force behind Anaconda, the leading modern open source analytics platform powered by Python, today announced four sessions at the Strata + Hadoop World with Continuum Analytics speakers, taking place March 29-31, 2016 in San Jose, CA.
Sessions Include:
WHAT: Python scalability: A convenient truth
WHO: Speakers:
- Travis Oliphant, Founder & CEO, Continuum Analytics
- Peter Wang, Founder & CTO, Continuum Analytics
WHEN: Thursday, March 31, 2016 11:50am - 12:30pm PDT
WHERE: LL20A; San Jose Convention Center
“Python is the fastest-growing data science language and is used in production at many of the Fortune 500 companies for everything from software engineering to data engineering to rapid analytics,” said Wang. “Organizations who are able to better manage their data and apply Python analytics will see massive performance improvements across the board.”
WHAT: 'Why a data career is a great choice, now more than ever'
WHO: Speakers:
- Michele Chambers, VP Product & CMO, Continuum Analytics
- Jin Zhang, Sr. Director Analytics, CA Technologies
- Jerry Overton, Data Scientist, CSC
WHEN: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 2:40pm - 3:20pm PDT
WHERE: LL21 C/D; San Jose Convention Center
“The big data and analytics industry is growing by leaps and bounds, especially in the area of Open Data Science,” said Chambers. “The industry is clamouring for strong talent to unveil and revolutionize the power of data and its monumental impact on all areas of our lives.”
WHAT: Office Hour with Travis Oliphant
WHO: Speaker:
- Travis Oliphant, Founder & CEO, Continuum Analytics
WHEN: Thursday, March 31, 2016 1:50pm - 2:30pm PDT
WHERE: Table B (O'Reilly Booth); San Jose Convention Center
WHAT: PyData at Strata
WHO: Speakers:
- T.J. Alumbaugh (Continuum Analytics)
- Katrina Riehl (Continuum Analytics)
- Bryan Van de Ven (Continuum Analytics)
- James Powell (NumFOCUS, a nonprofit founded by Continuum Analytics that supports and promotes worldclass, innovative, open source scientific software)
- Sarah Bird (Aptivate)
- Jake Vanderplas (eScience Institute, University of Washington)
WHEN: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 9:00am - 5:00pm PDT
WHERE: LL20A; San Jose Convention Center
Strata + Hadoop World is where cuttingedge science and new business fundamentals intersect—and merge. It's a deep dive into emerging techniques and technologies. Attendees will dissect case studies, develop new skills through indepth tutorials, share emerging best practices in data science and explore the future of data.
Continuum Analytics will be demonstrating its latest innovation for the Anaconda platform at Booth #1336 in the exhibition hall. If you are a customer, prospect, analyst or journalist and interested in meeting with Continuum Analytics at the event, please reach out to continuum@treblepr.com.
About Continuum Analytics
Continuum Analytics is the creator and driving force behind Anaconda, the leading, modern open source analytics platform powered by Python. We put superpowers into the hands of people who are changing the world.
With more than 2.25M downloads annually and growing, Anaconda is trusted by the world’s leading businesses across industries – financial services, government, health & life sciences, technology, retail & CPG, oil & gas – to solve the world’s most challenging problems. Anaconda does this by helping everyone in the data science team discover, analyze, and collaborate by connecting their curiosity and experience with data. With Anaconda, teams manage their open data science environments without any hassles to harness the power of the latest open source analytic and technology innovations.
Our community loves Anaconda because it empowers the entire data science team – data scientists, developers, DevOps, architects, and business analysts – to connect the dots in their data and accelerate the timetovalue that is required in today’s world. To ensure our customers are successful, we offer comprehensive support, training and professional services.
Continuum Analytics' founders and developers have created or contribute to some of the most popular open data science technologies, including NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, pandas, Jupyter/IPython, Bokeh, Numba and many others. Continuum Analytics is venturebacked by General Catalyst and BuildGroup.
To learn more about Continuum Analytics, visit www.continuum.io.
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