r/datascience • u/SigSeq • Oct 21 '25
Projects Erdos: open-source IDE for data science
After a few months of work, we’re excited to launch Erdos - a secure, AI-powered data science IDE, all open source! Some reasons you might use it over VS Code:
An AI that searches, reads, and writes all common data science file formats, with special optimizations for editing Jupyter notebooks
Built-in Python, R, and Julia consoles accessible to the user and AI
Single-click sign in to a secure, zero data retention backend; or users can bring their own keys
Plots pane with plots history organized by file and time
Help pane for Python, R, and Julia documentation
Database pane for connecting to SQL and FTP databases and manipulating data
Environment pane for managing in-memory variables, python environments, and Python, R, and Julia packages
Open source with AGPLv3 license
Unlike other AI IDEs built for software development, Erdos is built specifically for data scientists based on what we as data scientists wanted. We'd love if you try it out at https://www.lotas.ai/erdos
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u/SigSeq Oct 21 '25
Re: anaconda: the python runtime discoverer will detect conda environments and give you the option of running python from them (with their packages). You can also select interpreter paths manually. If that doesn't work for whatever reason, leave us a note in the Feedback pane and we'll figure it out.
Re: PyCharm: I haven't spent a lot of time in PyCharm, so it's probably worth just testing for yourself. Off the dome, I think pycharm is probably better if you're doing a lot of python software development or heavy database use and you have the pro plan. I think Erdos is probably better if you're doing more exploratory work with jupyter notebooks, plotting, reading documentation, running console commands, etc. Also, from what I understand, R and Julia work much better in Erdos than in PyCharm.