Anaconda vs. Atom

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Anaconda
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Anaconda is an enterprise Python platform that provides access to open-source Python and R packages used in AI, data science, and machine learning. These enterprise-grade solutions are used by corporate, research, and academic institutions for competitive advantage and research.
$0
per month
Atom
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Atom is a free and open source text editor offering a range of packages and themes.N/A
Pricing
AnacondaAtom
Editions & Modules
Free Tier
$0
per month
Starter Tier
$15
per month per user
Business
$50
per month per user
Custom
Contact Sales
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AnacondaAtom
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsUsers within organizations with 200+ employees/contractors (including Affiliates) require a paid Business license. Academic and non-profit research institutions may qualify for exemptions.
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Community Pulse
AnacondaAtom
Considered Both Products
Anaconda
Chose Anaconda
Anaconda is very strong in the environment and version control that make data science work much easier. The only thing that might be comparable to Anaconda would be using Kubernetes to control Docker. Another potential improvement would be replacing spyder with PyCharm and Atom
Chose Anaconda
Compare Anaconda to Unix coding system. You can use PIP to install and create requirement.txt to replace environment.yml to avoid using Anaconda. However, Anaconda is such an excellent tool to maintain your environment and check the version of your package and update the …
Atom
Chose Atom
Atom is the tool that does not run any code but at the same time, it is also the tool that allows you to write different codes. Even though you cannot use Atom on the cloud, but since it is using pure python, it is still preferred.
Features
AnacondaAtom
Platform Connectivity
Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of Product A and Product B
Anaconda
9.3
25 Ratings
11% above category average
Atom
-
Ratings
Connect to Multiple Data Sources9.822 Ratings00 Ratings
Extend Existing Data Sources8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic Data Format Detection9.721 Ratings00 Ratings
MDM Integration9.614 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Exploration
Comparison of Data Exploration features of Product A and Product B
Anaconda
8.5
25 Ratings
1% above category average
Atom
-
Ratings
Visualization9.025 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive Data Analysis8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Preparation
Comparison of Data Preparation features of Product A and Product B
Anaconda
9.0
26 Ratings
10% above category average
Atom
-
Ratings
Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment8.823 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Transformations8.026 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Encryption9.719 Ratings00 Ratings
Built-in Processors9.620 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Data Modeling
Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Anaconda
9.2
24 Ratings
9% above category average
Atom
-
Ratings
Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools9.023 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated Machine Learning8.921 Ratings00 Ratings
Single platform for multiple model development10.024 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-Service Model Delivery9.019 Ratings00 Ratings
Model Deployment
Comparison of Model Deployment features of Product A and Product B
Anaconda
9.5
21 Ratings
11% above category average
Atom
-
Ratings
Flexible Model Publishing Options10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
Security, Governance, and Cost Controls9.020 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
AnacondaAtom
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(38 ratings)
7.0
(31 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(3 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(9 ratings)
8.6
(13 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AnacondaAtom
Likelihood to Recommend
Anaconda
I have asked all my juniors to work with Anaconda and Pycharm only, as this is the best combination for now. Coming to use cases: 1. When you have multiple applications using multiple Python variants, it is a really good tool instead of Venv (I never like it). 2. If you have to work on multiple tools and you are someone who needs to work on data analytics, development, and machine learning, this is good. 3. If you have to work with both R and Python, then also this is a good tool, and it provides support for both.
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Open Source
Atom is great for simple HTML coding. It's fast, has intuitive shortcuts and several options. I particularly love the "convert spaces to tabs" function that I haven't seen in other editors.
I'm not sure how it would fair in more serious web development today, if there are plugins for live updates of the page you are working on...
But the problem is that it has been discontinued so you know there are no new features or fixes coming through.
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Pros
Anaconda
  • Anaconda is a one-stop destination for important data science and programming tools such as Jupyter, Spider, R etc.
  • Anaconda command prompt gave flexibility to use and install multiple libraries in Python easily.
  • Jupyter Notebook, a famous Anaconda product is still one of the best and easy to use product for students like me out there who want to practice coding without spending too much money.
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Open Source
  • Atom is highly customizable and allows for various themes and extensions that can make your code easier to read.
  • Atom has many code hinting features that allow users to write faster and integrate with services likeLINT that can clean up your code once your done to meet your internal teams style choices.
  • It's very fast and manages projects well - Accessing other files within a related folder(s) is very easy and intuitive.
  • It's free!
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Cons
Anaconda
  • It can have a cloud interface to store the work.
  • Compatible for large size files.
  • I used R Studio for building Machine Learning models, Many times when I tried to run the entire code together the software would crash. It would lead to loss of data and changes I made.
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Open Source
  • There should be a better user tips manual page to learn keyboard shortcuts
  • It would also be beneficial if mathematical and data analytic tools were added
  • it has quite high start-up timing when you open large projects to work on it
  • Sometimes, atom closed suddenly and do not open again
  • It still lacks better options with the previews even though there are already some by users adding plugins
  • It doesn't have self-correct features for lint errors, unlike IntelliJ
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Likelihood to Renew
Anaconda
It's really good at data processing, but needs to grow more in publishing in a way that a non-programmer can interact with. It also introduces confusion for programmers that are familiar with normal Python processes which are slightly different in Anaconda such as virtualenvs.
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Open Source
Well Atom is open source so the re-new is a no brainer. The only way I would stop using Atom is if the developers somehow made it not function well. Or, if the project got forked to a commercial version or something. Or, there could be the case that development stops or that it was not updated on this or that platform
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Usability
Anaconda
I am giving this rating because I have been using this tool since 2017, and I was in college at that time. Initially, I hesitated to use it as I was not very aware of the workings of Python and how difficult it is to manage its dependency from project to project. Anaconda really helped me with that. The first machine-learning model that I deployed on the Live server was with Anaconda only. It was so managed that I only installed libraries from the requirement.txt file, and it started working. There was no need to manually install cuda or tensor flow as it was a very difficult job at that time. Graphical data modeling also provides tools for it, and they can be easily saved to the system and used anywhere.
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Open Source
I give Atom a 9 because it is one of the most modern text editors built with JavaScript intentionally to allow the editor to be changed and modified with custom functionality that a team may need. I think I would otherwise give atom an 8 due to support, but it gets a 9/10 because of the extensibility/plugin capability.
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Support Rating
Anaconda
Anaconda provides fast support, and a large number of users moderate its online community. This enables any questions you may have to be answered in a timely fashion, regardless of the topic. The fact that it is based in a Python environment only adds to the size of the online community.
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Open Source
Atom has an active forum and a Slack group where you can ask technical questions. Occasionally, the authors will pop in to answer a few questions here and there, but most of the time, its other helpful users who will assist you. Though they aren't the most knowledgeable, they are at least timely.
As for plugin support, that differs with each plugin, but as I mentioned before, many plugins are no longer maintained.
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Implementation Rating
Anaconda
No answers on this topic
Open Source
Just download and install
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Alternatives Considered
Anaconda
I have experience using RStudio oustide of Anaconda. RStudio can be installed via anaconda, but I like to use RStudio separate from Anaconda when I am worin in R. I tend to use Anaconda for python and RStudio for working in R. Although installing libraries and packages can sometimes be tricky with both RStudio and Anaconda, I like installing R packages via RStudio. However, for anything python-related, Anaconda is my go to!
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Open Source
Our company likes to keep things open, and we don't want to prevent developers from customizing their environment the way they want. Atom seemed to be a lot more open than our existing tools and has good community support on pretty much any programming language. This can create some confusion since adding too many extensions or customizing can make the tool slower than it is supposed to be.
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Return on Investment
Anaconda
  • It has helped our organization to work collectively faster by using Anaconda's collaborative capabilities and adding other collaboration tools over.
  • By having an easy access and immediate use of libraries, developing times has decreased more than 20 %
  • There's an enormous data scientist shortage. Since Anaconda is very easy to use, we have to be able to convert several professionals into the data scientist. This is especially true for an economist, and this my case. I convert myself to Data Scientist thanks to my econometrics knowledge applied with Anaconda.
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Open Source
  • The tool we use when we need quick fixes. Allows fast, reliable scripting to fix urgent problems in our applications.
  • When applications grow from 5-10 files to 100's, they need to be migrated to a heavier-duty IDE. This can be cumbersome and quite annoying, but is necessary to maintain code integrity on such a large scale (since it cannot be done with the limited default toolset of Atom).
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