[mcrad]

Right - sounds like you have more of a production support role vs. a data analysis workflow kind of task. Tacking on "exploratory" is helpful but I'm still concerned that you misuse the overall concept of analysis. It's decision-making task, which is practically the opposite of production support.

[ChrisRackauckas]

>Tacking on "exploratory" is helpful but I'm still concerned that you misuse the overall concept of analysis. It's decision-making task, which is practically the opposite of production support.

Why should the exploratory and production teams be using completely different tools? That seems like it would cause frictions in productivity and make there be gaps that introduce translation errors. I would venture to say that just having the exploratory and production teams working using the same code base is a very strong productivity gain, and we've seen this is true in many companies.

[mcrad]

One is R&D, and one is operations. Obviously there are situations where it makes sense to combine them, but most successful companies with any real technology to sell will not treat R&D this way.