2016/11/06
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At Airbnb, the data science team has written their own R packages to scale with the company’s growth. The most basic achievement of the packages is the standardization of the work (ggplot and RMarkdown templates) and reduction of duplicate effort (importing data). New employees are introduced to the infrastructure with extensive workshops. This reminded me of a presentation by Hilary Parker in April at the New York R Conference on Scaling Analysis Responsibly.