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Enthought Canopy

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What is Enthought Canopy?

Austin based Enthought offers their flagship scientific Python distribution, Canopy. The Canopy Geoscience (or Canopy Geo) variant of the product is a data analysis, exploration and visualization package optimized for geologists & geophysicists, and researchers in petroleum science.

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Data analysis and scientific applications with python integrated in a beautifully designed environment.

Jesús AponteView profile
Ayudante Académico Nivel II at Universidad Simón Bolívar (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Providing scientific libraries, both open source and Enthought's own libraries which are excellent.
  • Training. They provide several courses in python for general use and for data analysis.
  • Debugging tools. Several IDEs provides tools for debugging, but I think they are insufficient or too general. Canopy has a special debugging tool, specially design for python.

Cons

  • Lack of python 3 support. I hope this will chance in the near future.
  • Canopy is perfect for scientific application, but it would be even more perfect if they include more general purpose libraries.

Return on Investment

  • Canopy increased our efficiency in processing , analyzing and plotting our data.
  • Canopy reduced the cost of developing several libraries.

Canopy is highly recommended for data analysts

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Canopy's editor has an integrated environment of having an editor and a Python shell attached to it
  • The Documentation Browser is useful
  • The analytic Python package distribution is definitely a plus

Cons

  • Canopy does not support Python 3
  • There were times the Python shell crashed, and I would have to restart it
  • Some Python libraries are slow.

Return on Investment

  • Its easier to define KPI's with Enthought
  • It is good for reiteration and building on top of existing scripts
  • Its dedicated Python console makes it easier to execute projects.

Alternatives Considered

Sublime

Other Software Used

SaltStack, Google Cloud Storage