Data Journeys

  Travis Oliphant is the Founder & CEO of Quansight: a company that bridges open-source communities and innovative companies by growing talent, building technology, and discovering new products. For years Travis has been an indispensable contributor toward data science’s open-source movement through so many different outlets: Founder, Director, & Former CEO @ Anaconda, Inc: a free and open source distribution of over 250 popular data science packages for Python and R, used by over 6 million users. Founder, Chairman of the Board @ NumFOCUS Foundation: the world-renowned open-source community promoting open code development and reproducible scientific research. President @ Enthought: a software company best known for the early development and maintenance of the SciPy stack. Creator of NumPy, SciPy, Numba, & XND: all invaluable open-source Python libraries Before founding Continuum Analytics (later renamed to Anaconda) in 2012, Travis received a Ph.D. from the Mayo Clinic, B.S. and M.S. degrees in