Anaconda vs. miniconda

Question

In the Anaconda repository, there are two types of installers:

\"Anaconda installers\" and \"Miniconda installers\".

What

Answer 1

Miniconda gives you the Python interpreter itself, along with a command-line tool called conda which operates as a cross-platform package manager geared toward Python packages, similar in spirit to the apt or yum tools that Linux users might be familiar with.

Anaconda includes both Python and conda, and additionally bundles a suite of other pre-installed packages geared toward scientific computing. Because of the size of this bundle, expect the installation to consume several gigabytes of disk space.

Source: Jake VanderPlas's Python Data Science Handbook