Code Workbook [Legacy]

Code Workbook is an application that allows users to analyze and transform data in code using an intuitive graphical interface.

Goals

Code Workbook was designed with these principles in mind:

• Iteration speed: Users can quickly test and refine logic for transformation and visualization in order to produce useful results.
• Low barrier to entry: Code Workbook's graphical interface and the ability to reuse pre-authored logic were designed to enable easy onboarding of users of varying technical skill.
• Collaboration: Disparate groups of users can share logic and work together on a single analysis in Code Workbook.
• Platform interoperability: Users can productionize their findings across the platform by adding visualizations to Notepad, promoting production-ready pipelines to Code Repositories, and iterating on machine learning models.

Features

Key features of Code Workbook include:

• An interactive console for rapid iteration on transformation logic and ad-hoc data exploration.
• Visualization support to create detailed, interactive images with commonly used packages (Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn).
• Templates that enable reuse of complex and domain-specific logic through a simple interface.
• Multi-language support for code and template languages to allow users to select the best language for an analysis.
• Branching to facilitate collaboration by isolating users’ changes from one another.
• A point-and-click user interface that makes it easy to customize the Spark environment, set input types for transforms, and view relationships between nodes.