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Anaconda Fusion
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:emphasis:`Excel Data Science`

Anaconda Fusion integrates the Anaconda Platform with Microsoft Excel.

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Fusion provides these core benefits:

1. **Connect MS Excel to Open Data Science.** With Anaconda Fusion, open source packages such as scikit-learn for predictive analytics, pandas for data transformations, and Bokeh for rich, interactive visualizations can be accessed from within the familiar Excel environment.

2. **Leverage Data Scientists' notebooks easily through MS Excel.** Excel users can run data science analysis (such as predictive models, interactive visualizations, and big data queries) through a simple UI without having to write any code.

3. **Access all the power of Python and Big Data, natively embedded inside MS Excel.** Anaconda Fusion allows users to run Python code in their spreadsheets to perform advanced transformations, modeling and querying of data stored in their spreadsheets or stored in databases and Hadoop.

How to get Fusion
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A free 60-day Fusion trial is included in Anaconda Navigator. See our  :doc:`Fusion install <install>` page for details.

If you are an Anaconda Enterprise subscriber, a full license to Anaconda Fusion is included as part of your subscription. You can :doc:`install Fusion <install>` the same easy way, with Anaconda Navigator. 

If you are not an Anaconda Enterprise subscriber, you can try Fusion free for 60 days by joining the `Anaconda Fusion Trial Program <http://go.continuum.io/2017-anaconda-fusion-trial/>`_ . A license and instructions will be emailed to you.


Resources
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* `Anaconda Fusion Example Gallery <https://continuumio.github.io/anaconda-fusion-demos/>`_

* `Blog post: Anaconda Fusion: A Portal to Open Data Science for Excel <https://www.continuum.io/blog/company-blog/anaconda-fusion-portal-open-data-science-excel>`_

* `Webinar on demand: Bringing Open Data Science into Excel with Anaconda Fusion <http://go.continuum.io/anaconda-fusion/>`_


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   data-scientist-guide
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