One reason it can be very useful is that a conda environment gives data scientists a super easy way to Dockerise their code. Binder (https://mybinder.org/ http

One reason it can be very useful is that a conda environment gives data scientists a super easy way to Dockerise their code. Binder (https://mybinder.org/ https://mybinder.org/) is a good example of how well this can work - anyone can reproduce your work using e.g. Jupyter hosted on a binder, build from a conda env.