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Developed byMatthew Rocklin
Maintained byAnaconda Inc
Founded2015
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
Open source✓ Open Source
Use caseParallel computing for Python analytics
Technical
API compatible
NumPy APIPandas APIPandasNumPy
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Parallel computing library for analytics that scales NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn to multi-core machines.

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developed by

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