title: Why do we need Anaconda when we have pip?
body: <p><a href="https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda/" rel="noreferrer">Anaconda</a> has become very popular in scientific computing, because it bundles together over 125 of the most widely used Python data analysis libraries. My question is, since we already have pip (which is a very widely used Python package manager), why do we need Anaconda? Couldn't we all simply type <code>pip install</code> for each of the 125+ libraries and they'd all work together nicely? Or would they not work together nicely, meaning that Anaconda has done us all a big favour by sorting out the issues that arise when trying to get 125+ libraries to interact nicely? </p>