It's a german word and means Hedgehog.

It's funny we were discussing a name for the project and we wanted to make an abbreviation from some words that make sense, so we started throwing ideas spontaneously. At the end we wanted to make an abbr for these words: "Init, Generate, Evaluate Machine Learning".

IGEL made sense for us then since it's a german word too. Easy to say, type and remember ;)

Not sure if there is any deeper meaning hidden behind it, but it is the German word for Hedgehog (pronounce as: "Eagle")

Interesting, igel is Swedish for leech (Egel in German). The Swedish word for hedgehog is instead igelkott. In short, Egel = igel and Igel != igel... TIL

Indeed interesting :D

Interesting. That makes sense since the logo is a hedgehog. What’s the connection though I wonder.