{"id":1314,"date":"2020-06-09T20:52:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T20:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2020-06-09T20:52:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T20:52:25","slug":"researchers-win-award-for-paper-on-improving-software-for-data-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/2020\/06\/09\/researchers-win-award-for-paper-on-improving-software-for-data-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers win award for paper on improving software for data scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1921\/files\/2020\/06\/souti-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Souti Chattopadhyay\" class=\"wp-image-1317\" \/><figcaption>Souti Chattopadhyay, graduate student of computer science.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Souti Chattopadhyay, graduate student of computer science in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University, was first author on a paper that won the Honorable Mention Award at the 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The distinction is given to the top 10% of the papers presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other authors include her advisor, Anita Sarma, associate professor of computer science, and colleagues at Microsoft and University of Tennessee-Knoxville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis award means that our research matters and provides deeper insight into what the future can hold in terms of accessible and inclusive computing,\u201d Chattopadhyay said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chattopadhyay\u2019s research examines how data scientists make decisions when interacting with programming interfaces. The goal is to make programming tools contextually assistive with freedom to delay and review the outcomes of decisions along the path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/whats-wrong-with-computational-notebooks\/\">What\u2019s Wrong with Computational Notebooks? Pain Points, Needs, and Design Opportunities<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Souti Chattopadhyay<sup>1<\/sup>, Ishita Prasad<sup>2<\/sup>, Austin Z. Henley<sup>3<\/sup>, Anita Sarma<sup>1<\/sup>, Titus Barik<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oregon State University<sup>1<\/sup>, Microsoft<sup>2<\/sup>, University of Tennessee-Knoxville<sup>3<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABSTRACT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Computational notebooks\u2014such as Azure, Databricks, and Jupyter\u2014are a popular, interactive paradigm for data scientists to author code, analyze data, and interleave visualizations, all within a single document. Nevertheless, as data scientists incorporate more of their activities into notebooks, they encounter unexpected difficulties, or pain points, that impact their productivity and disrupt their workflow. Through a systematic, mixed-methods study using semi-structured interviews (n = 20) and survey (n = 156) with data scientists, we catalog nine pain points when working with notebooks. Our findings suggest that data scientists face numerous pain points throughout the entire workflow\u2014from setting up notebooks to deploying to production\u2014across many notebook environments. Our data scientists report essential notebook requirements, such as supporting data exploration and visualization. The results of our study inform and inspire the design of computational notebooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate student Souti Chattopadhyay was first author on a paper that won the Honorable Mention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2027],"tags":[1376336,1264,1231,101813,1394191],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","tag-anita-sarma","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-computer-science","tag-school-of-electrical-engineering-and-computer-science","tag-souti-chattopadhyay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}