Two New Utilities to Boost Your Data Science Productivity

This post is authored by Xibin Gao, Data Scientist, Debraj GuhaThakurta, Senior Data Scientist, Gopi Kumar, Principal Program Manager, and Hang Zhang, Senior Data Science Manager, at Microsoft. Data scientists typically spend a significant amount of time writing code seeking answers to the above questions. Although datasets differ between projects, much of the code can be generalized into data science utilities that can be reused across projects, thus helping with productivity. Additionally, such utilities can help data scientists work on specific tasks in a project in a guided mode, ensuring consistency and completeness of the underlying tasks. These two utilities, which run in CRAN-R, can be accessed from this GitHub site.