Travis Oliphant

Travis Oliphant

Creator of NumPy, SciPy, and co-founder of Anaconda, contributor to scientific computing in Python, founder of Continuum Analytics (now Anaconda, Inc.), professor at the University of Utah focusing on data science and computing

About

Travis Oliphant is a prominent software engineer and data scientist known for creating NumPy and SciPy, fundamental libraries in scientific computing with Python.
He co-founded Anaconda, a leading platform for data science and machine learning.
Oliphant has contributed extensively to the Python data science ecosystem and served as a professor, focusing on advancing computing tools and education.
His work bridges both open-source software development and entrepreneurial leadership in data science technologies.

Areas of Expertise

software engineer data scientist

Recent Podcasts

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Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224

Topic: Scientific programming and data science, focusing on Python libraries and open-source development

03:05:25805,0927,8524 years ago
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