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Anaconda Mosaic
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.. figure:: /img/mosaic_open_full.png
    
    Mosaic Opening View


Anaconda Mosaic is a module of the Anaconda Platform used for interactive 
exploration of larger-than-memory datasets. It provides these core benefits:

1. **Write once, compute anywhere.** Mosaic translates the same computational
   code to various backends, including relational databases, NoSQL stores,
   Spark and more, by leveraging the power of `Blaze
   <https://blaze.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html>`_. You can access data
   in multiple data stores with the same code, and you can swap backends
   without rewriting queries or analytic pipelines.

2. **Push computations to the data.** For maximum efficiency, Mosaic will push 
   the computations to your data backend, minimizing the costly movement of
   data across the network and taking full advantage of the built-in highly
   optimized code featured in your data backend (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB,
   Spark, and more).

3. **Instantly work with large flat file repositories** Mosaic
   allows you to work with data scattered across directories of CSVs with
   minimal effort. You no longer have to write tedious Extract/Load/Transform
   (ETL) code! All you have to do is tell Mosaic how to parse the information
   embedded in the directory structure with simple wildcards.

4. **Collect all your data sources in one place.** Mosaic saves you time that
   would be wasted discovering what data is available and where it is located.

5. **Visually explore your data.** Mosaic provides many built-in visualizations, 
   including scatter plots, bar charts and more, allowing you to map variables 
   to different visual traits such as axis, color, glyph size and more. With 
   these visualizations you can quickly make sense of your data and test simple 
   hypotheses.

6. **Integrate seamlessly with an Enterprise environment.** Mosaic provides
   Enterprise-ready features such as provenance, governance and
   orchestration.

Anaconda Mosaic 1.0 was released on April 8th, 2016, and is available to
current Anaconda Enterprise subscribers.

Help & Support
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If you have any questions or problems with Anaconda Mosaic, please contact
`Priority Support <https://support.continuum.io/>`_.

What's Next?
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If you are an Anaconda subscriber and want to try out Anaconda Mosaic, `get in
touch <http://know.continuum.io/Anaconda-Mosaic.html>`_,
or find out more about Anaconda Mosaic:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   
   install
   quickstart
   user-guide
   lux-tutorial
   glossary
   releasenotes
