Blog posts tagged
"Data science"

16 posts

Giulia Lanzafame
26 June 2025

Accelerating data science with Apache Spark and GPUs

Article Data Platform

Apache Spark has always been very well known for distributing computation among multiple nodes using the assistance of partitions, and CPU cores have always performed processing within a single partition.  What’s less widely known is that it is possible to accelerate Spark with GPUs. Harnessing this power in the right...

Giulia Lanzafame
26 June 2025

Stefano Fioravanzo
3 March 2025

Experiment Tracking with MLFlow in Canonical’s Data Science Stack

Article Desktop

Welcome back, data scientists! In my previous post, we explored how easy it is to set up a machine learning environment with Canonical’s Data Science Stack (DSS) and run your first model using Hugging Face’s Smol Course. Today, let’s take it a step further with experiment tracking. Experimentation is at the heart of...

Stefano Fioravanzo
3 March 2025

Stefano Fioravanzo
14 January 2025

How to build your first model using DSS

Article AI

GenAI is transforming how we approach technology. This blog explores how you can use Canonical’s Data Science Stack (DSS) to set up your environment and dive into Hugging Face’s new self-paced course on LLMs. Learn how to build your first model and explore new GenAI topics this year!

Stefano Fioravanzo
14 January 2025

Anastasia Kritskaya
3 October 2024

Canonical at Cloud Expo 2024

Article AI

The Cloud Expo Madrid 2024 will run on 16 and 17 October at IFEMA Madrid. Come down to our booth, K87, to meet us and chat about Cloud, AI, ML and more.

Anastasia Kritskaya
3 October 2024

Andreea Munteanu
2 October 2024

Canonical joins OPEA to enable Enterprise AI

Article AI

Canonical is committed to enabling organizations to secure and scale their AI/ML projects in production. This is why we are pleased to announce that we have joined the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA), a project community at the Linux Foundation focused on enterprise AI using open-source tooling. What is OPEA?...

Andreea Munteanu
2 October 2024

Canonical
17 September 2024

Introducing Data Science Stack: set up an ML environment with 3 commands on Ubuntu 

Article AI

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced the general availability of Data Science Stack (DSS), an out-of-the-box solution for data science that enables ML environments on your AI workstation. It is fully open source, free to use and native to Ubuntu.  It is also accessible on other Linux distributions and on...

Canonical
17 September 2024

Richard Ferreira
4 September 2024

Meet Canonical at Open Source Summit Europe 2024

Article AI

Join Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, as we attend the upcoming Open Source Summit Europe 2024 in Austria. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, this summit is the premier event for developers, technologists, and community leaders with a keen interest in the innovation that open source enables. Mark your calendars for...

Richard Ferreira
4 September 2024

Freyja Cooper
27 August 2024

Join industry experts at Data and AI Masters

Article AI

Canonical’s free online event brings you two days of hands-on workshops from NVIDIA, Intel, Google, Microsoft and Dell Join us this October 1-2 as we host our inaugural Data and AI Masters event. Streamed online, the conference will be a two-day deep dive into the latest innovations in machine learning, data science,...

Freyja Cooper
27 August 2024

Andreea Munteanu
17 June 2024

Top 5 reasons to use Ubuntu for your AI/ML projects

Article AI

For 20 years, Ubuntu has been at the cutting edge of technology. Pioneers looking to innovate new technologies and ideas choose Ubuntu as the medium to do it, whether they’re building devices for space, deploying a fleet of robots or building up financial infrastructure.  The rise of machine learning is no exception and...

Andreea Munteanu
17 June 2024

Andreea Munteanu
13 June 2024

Solving newcomer data science challenges with Canonical’s Data Science Stack – now in beta

Article AI

Data science is one of the most exciting topics of the last century. With its utility in industries of all kinds, it’s easy to see why it has been rated as one of the top 20 fast-growing occupations in the US, according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics.  However, entering this fast-growing space isn’t’ easy:

Andreea Munteanu
13 June 2024

victoriaantipova
14 March 2024

Join the Canonical Data and AI team at Data Innovation Summit 2024

Data Platform AI

Join Canonical Data and AI team at Data Innovation Summit 2024

victoriaantipova
14 March 2024

Andreea Munteanu
27 July 2023

Ubuntu AI podcast

Article AI

A podcast on open source, machine learning and levelling the playing field for data-driven innovation.  In a world where generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are the new hot topics, having conversations about machine learning, MLOps or open source is a real need. This is what we had in mind when we first thought

Andreea Munteanu
27 July 2023

Andreea Munteanu
12 July 2023

Large language models (LLMs): what, why, how?

Article AI

Large language models (LLMs) are machine-learning models specialised in understanding natural language. They became famous once ChatGPT was widely adopted around the world, but they have applications beyond chatbots. LLMs are suitable to generate translations or content summaries. This blog will explain large language...

Andreea Munteanu
12 July 2023

Oliver Smith
10 May 2022

HP brings the power of Ubuntu-based data science to Windows workstations

Article Ubuntu

Ubuntu is fast becoming the platform of choice for data scientists worldwide – which is why HP is empowering its customers to launch Ubuntu environments directly on their Windows machines. In addition to native Ubuntu offerings, select Z by HP workstations are also available with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2)...

Oliver Smith
10 May 2022

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