Python Gets a Big Data Boost From DARPA

itwbennett writes "DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has awarded $3 million to software provider Continuum Analytics to help fund the development of Python's data processing and visualization capabilities for big data jobs. The money will go toward developing new techniques for data analysis and for visually portraying large, multi-dimensional data sets. The work aims to extend beyond the capabilities offered by the NumPy and SciPy Python libraries, which are widely used by programmers for mathematical and scientific calculations, respectively. The work is part of DARPA's XData research program, a four-year, $100 million effort to give the Defense Department and other U.S. government agencies tools to work with large amounts of sensor data and other forms of big data."

Wrong language

[Dishwasha]

The put the money in the wrong place. They should have put it in to R which very popularly interfaces with Python.

Good news for the Python community

[kauaidiver]

As a full time Python developer for going on 6 years this is good to hear! Now if we can get a Python-lite to replace Javascript in the browser.

Re:Great. Just Great

[Anonymous Coward]

What is this APRANET thing? It sounds like some useless crap loaded acronym to me.