Conference Paper

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@inproceedings{Raghunandan2021, title={Lodestar: Supporting Independent Learning and Rapid Experimentation Through Data-Driven Analysis Recommendations}, author={Deepthi Raghunandan and Zhe Cui and Kartik Krishnan and Segen Tirfe and Shenzhi Shi and Tejaswi Darshan Shrestha and Leilani Battle and Niklas Elmqvist}, url={https://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~elm/projects/lodestar/lodestar.pdf}, year={2021}, date={2021-10-01}, journal={Proceedings of the Symposium on Visualization in Data Science}, booktitle={Proceedings of the Symposium on Visualization in Data Science}, abstract={Keeping abreast of current trends, technologies, and best practices in visualization and data analysis is becoming increasingly difficult, especially for fledgling data scientists. In this paper, we propose Lodestar, an interactive computational notebook that allows users to quickly explore and construct new data science workflows by selecting from a list of automated analysis recommendations. We derive our recommendations from directed graphs of known analysis states, with two input sources: one manually curated from online data science tutorials, and another extracted through semi-automatic analysis of a corpus of over 6,000 Jupyter notebooks. We evaluate Lodestar in a formative study guiding our next set of improvements to the tool. Our results suggest that users find Lodestar useful for rapidly creating data science workflows.}, keywords={}, }