ambitious project that tried to redefine computation, storage, compression, and data science APIs for Python, led originally by Travis Oliphant and Peter Wang, the co-founders of Anaconda. However, Blaze’s approach of being an ecosystem-in-a-package meant that it was harder for new users to easily adopt. As a result, we started to intentionally develop new components of Blaze outside the project … [and dask was designed to be] the simplest way to do parallel NumPy operations” Matthew Rocklin Dask Creator Source https://coiled.io/blog/history-dask/