We performed a comparison between Anaconda and Birst based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."The tool's most valuable feature is its cloud-based nature, allowing accessibility from anywhere. Additionally, using Jupyter Notebook makes it easy to handle bugs and errors."
"The documentation is excellent and the solution has a very large and active community that supports it."
"The most valuable feature is the set of libraries that are used to support the functionality that we require."
"The best part of Anaconda is the media distribution that comes as part of it. It gets us started very quickly."
"It's interesting. It's user friendly. That's what makes it outstanding among the others. It has a collection of R, Python, and others. Their platform strategy has a collection of many other visualization tools, apart from Spyder and RStudio, which is really helpful for data science. For any data science professional, Anaconda is really handy. It has almost all the tools for data science."
"The virtual environment is very good."
"I can use Anaconda for non-heavy tasks."
"It helped us find find the optimal area for where our warehouse should be located."
"Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"One thing that hurts the product is that the company is not doing more to advertise it as a solution and make it more well known."
"Anaconda can't handle heavy workloads."
"Having a small guide or video on the tool would help learn how to use it and what the features are."
"Anaconda could benefit from improvement in its user interface to make it more attractive and user-friendly. Currently, it's boring."
"The ability to schedule scripts for the building and monitoring of jobs would be an advantage for this platform."
"Anaconda should be optimized for RAM consumption."
"I think better documentation or a step-by-step guide for installation would help, especially for on-premise users."
"One feature that I would like to see is being able to use a different language in a different cell, which would allow me to mix R and Python together."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
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Anaconda is ranked 13th in Data Science Platforms with 15 reviews while Birst is ranked 32nd in Reporting. Anaconda is rated 7.8, while Birst is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Anaconda writes "Offers free version and is helpful to handle small-scale workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Birst writes "The dashboards and Visualizer are valuable". Anaconda is most compared with Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Amazon SageMaker, Microsoft Power BI and IBM SPSS Statistics, whereas Birst is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, ThoughtSpot and Alteryx.
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