Python has some wonderful libraries for statistical analysis, but they might be overkill for simple tasks. The built-in statistics library might be what you want instead. Here are some things you can ...

The power of Python trumps Excel workbooks.

Microsoft announced a new extension pack for Visual Studio Code that bundles tools for Python development, assisted by the AI-powered GitHub Copilot and a data wrangler. The new Python Data Science ...

In December 2019 my InfoWorld colleague Sharon Machlis wrote an article called “How to merge data in R using R merge, dplyr, or data.table.” Sharon is a whiz at R programming, and analytics in general ...

What if the tools you already use could do more than you ever imagined? Picture this: you’re working on a massive dataset in Excel, trying to make sense of endless rows and columns. It’s slow, ...

Vienna, Austria, June 25, 2026 -- digna, the European data quality and observability platform, today announced the release of ...

Anaconda provides a handy GUI, a slew of work environments, and tools to simplify the process of using Python for data science. No question about it, Python is a crucial part of modern data science.

Since the first human genome was sequenced in 2000, omic profiling technologies have seen their costs reduced by multiple orders of magnitude, and omic profiling is now performed routinely. Petabytes ...

ActiveState, the open source languages company and founding sponsor of the Python Software Foundation since 2001, announced today the immediate availability of a vastly expanded ActivePython 2.7.13 ...

Overview AI and big data posted the sharpest jump on WEF's 2025 skills ranking, up 17 percentage points in two years, while ...