M'shelle Manager
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A programmer who moved into customer support and then into product management, M’shelle is now in charge of a ten-person analytics group. She is responsible for getting her team trained and purchasing the tools they need to do their work.
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M’shelle thinks in Java; she used base R to develop models and generate reports several years ago, but was promoted before the tidyverse became popular.
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M’shelle wants to improve her team’s processes, particularly around packaging code and making work more reproducible. The new VP of engineering has also asked her to turn everything into a web service. While all of this is going on, she needs to decide how much budget she needs for new software that she will personally never use.
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M’shelle has to work within a strict training budget, and it can sometimes take months to get approval for off-site training (and even longer for on-site).
Needs
M’shelle needs tutorials, reference material, and how-to guides for everything that isn’t data science, including testing, packaging, and Shiny. (Her team is satisfied with the existing tutorials on data manipulation and modeling.)
See Also
- Jacqui Ofalltrades: needs similar overviews
- Katrin Keener and Larry Legacy: both of whom M’shelle manages