Replacing the file name with the respective name of your installer file. Then again follow
the instructions. It is the same on an Apple computer; just type:
$ bash Anaconda-1.x.x-MacOSX-x86_64.sh
making sure you replace the name given here with the correct one. Alternatively, you can
use the graphical installer that is available.
After the installation you have more than 100 libraries and packages available that you can
use immediately. Among the scientific and data analytics packages are those listed in
Table 2-1.
Table 2-1. Selected libraries and packages included in Anaconda
Name Description
BitArray
Object types for arrays of Booleans
Cubes OLAP
Framework for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) applications
Disco
mapreduce implementation for distributed computing
Gdata
Implementation of Google Data Protocol
h5py
Python wrapper around HDF5 file format
HDF5
File format for fast I/O operations
IPython
Interactive development environment (IDE)
lxml
Processing XML and HTML with Python
matplotlib
Standard 2D and 3D plotting library
MPI4Py
Message Parsing Interface (MPI) implementation for parallel computation
MPICH2
Another MPI implementation
NetworkX
Building and analyzing network models and algorithms
numexpr
Optimized execution of numerical expressions
