No shade towards people behind Anaconda but all I see is it is just Python that comes with things like Pandas, Numpy and Jupyter Notebook built in. What special will Anaconda do that I cannot already achieve in base Python?

It may be necessary for Math professors who do not feel it being their part of the job to setup development environment and want to go straight to coding. But for us folks who know how to use pip, what practical benifit does Anaconda bring?

Hi!

I’m a beginner with Python but I would like to apply what I’ve learned to my day to day job. Unfortunately, my firm is unfamiliar with the technology. And they’re highly concerned with cyber security and protecting their network. So when they hear the words “open source”, alarm bells go off.

My training has been on how to actually use Python for data science by coding in Anaconda/Jupyter notebooks. And not on what anaconda/Jupyter is from an IT infrastructure point of view.

So my understanding is that anaconda actually runs the code and produces the result. While Jupyter is just the interface in which you write it. With the primary advantage being that Jupyter is web based so you can easily access the libraries.

Do I have that right?

Part 2:

They have offered access to Visual Studio, but when I needed pandas, I had to ask IT to download it onto my machine which took hours. And they watched the internet connection out of fear of hackers because it’s open source.

So how do I provide comfort to my managers that the open source libraries are not filled with malicious code?

And how would you address the problem that Jupyter users could access potentially dangerous libraries? Perhaps visual studio is the only way to restrict users from accessing anything they please?

Thanks in advance!