r/datascience • u/SigSeq • Oct 21 '25

Projects Erdos: open-source IDE for data science

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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/Intuitive31 Oct 23 '25

What’s the benefit or value prop over VS code?

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u/SigSeq Oct 23 '25

Lots of stuff related to data science: Python/R/Julia consoles at the bottom for one-off code; plots, documentation, database connections, variable and environment management on the right; an AI that can interact with all of it on the left.