Developers are increasingly besieged by the big data deluge. Business units want to find the actionable information buried in all that data, and dev teams are more frequently turning to Python to deliver the answers business users are seeking.

But there’s one big drawback: Interpreted Python code just doesn’t have the speed of compiled code, forcing many developers to consider re-writing their big data and machine learning applications in C.

Intel® Distribution for Python*, which is absolutely free by the way, uses tried-and-true libraries like the Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL) and the Intel® Data Analytics Acceleration Library (Intel® DAAL) to make Python code scream right out of the box – no re-coding required. Here’s some of the benefits dev teams can expect

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