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Introduction to Conda for (Data) Scientists

This lesson is an introduction to Conda for (data) scientists. Conda is an open source package and environment management system that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. Conda installs, runs, and updates packages and their dependencies. Conda easily creates, saves, loads, and switches between environments on your local computer. While Conda was created for Python programs it can package and distribute software for any languages such as R, Ruby, Lua, Scala, Java, JavaScript, C/ C++, FORTRAN. This lesson motivates the use of Conda as a development tool for building and sharing project specific software environments that facilitate reproducible (data) science workflows.

Contributing

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Please see the current list of issues for ideas for contributing to this repository. For making your contribution, we use the GitHub flow, which is nicely explained in the chapter Contributing to a Project in Pro Git by Scott Chacon. Look for the tag good_first_issue. This indicates that the mantainers will welcome a pull request fixing this issue.

Maintainer(s)

Current maintainers of this lesson are

  • David R. Pugh

Authors

A list of contributors to the lesson can be found in AUTHORS

Citation

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