# About Texera

Apache Texera (Incubating) is an open-source platform for human-AI collaborative data science using visual workflows. It enables analysts to construct, execute, and refine data analysis tasks through an intuitive GUI, assisted by AI agents that understand natural-language instructions. Texera is well-suited for a wide range of applications, including “AI for Science,” by making advanced AI and data science capabilities accessible to a broader community. It can run on a laptop for local use or be deployed in the cloud to support scalable processing of large datasets.

## The platform has the following key features:

- Natural-language data science through AI agents
- Intuitive GUI-based workflows for data science
- Real-time collaboration for workflow editing and execution
- Parallel backend engine for scalable big-data processing
- Language-agnostic workflow runtime, native support for Python and Java
- Separation of compute and storage for flexible cloud deployment
- Runtime debugging and interactive workflow execution

## Learn More

To learn more, please visit https://texera.apache.org/. The source code of the platform is available on GitHub.