Anaconda is a distribution package for programming languages like python, the most popular python data science platform as it says.
The main advantage of using anaconda is it comes with many prebuilt python/data science packages, which will be installed automatically after installing anaconda distribution in our system. It is popular among data scientists because of
this same reason, it comes with many packages for data science like numpy,scipy,mathplotlib, jupyter notebook etc.
Anaconda also comes with it's own inbuilt package and environment management system called conda which is a open source project. Using conda we can easily search, find and install various packages online. Another advantage of conda is that we can search and install any packages(python or non-python)
This video may help you with walk-through.
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