{"id":3284,"date":"2019-04-01T07:43:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T12:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2019-04-01T07:43:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T12:43:50","slug":"new-product-performance-review-toolbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/2019\/04\/01\/new-product-performance-review-toolbox\/","title":{"rendered":"New Product &#8211; Performance Review Toolbox"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"content\"><!--introduction--><p>I'm pleased to announce the introduction of a new product today, the Performance Review Toolbox. It's so new, there isn't even a web page or marketing material for it.<\/p><!--\/introduction--><h3>Contents<\/h3><div><ul><li><a href=\"#ca860fcd-69f4-4bbd-a601-34de5f6690c4\">Writing Self-reviews<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#c7336a7b-b06a-4549-a59a-33a1527263b6\">Providing Peer Comments<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#3e613c36-1efe-4a7c-b5b5-7f2008379811\">Writing Reviews for Employees<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#a6721629-c287-4c07-8f74-04e0ad4ba44a\">Early Reviews<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#df2cef3f-1ad0-4b30-8b69-fbcaffb1d2a4\">Would This Be Helpful for Your Workplace?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><h4>Writing Self-reviews<a name=\"ca860fcd-69f4-4bbd-a601-34de5f6690c4\"><\/a><\/h4><p>Do you need to write an annual self-review?  We do at MathWorks. Needless to say, if you been doing a similar job for the past few years, it can be challenging to figure out what's new to say.  MATLAB can help you, using Text Analytics Toolbox, along with machine and deep learning from Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox and Deep Learning Toolbox. Simply have available the proper document directories from your work in the previous year, as well as relevant threads in email and internal 'groups', source code control and bug\/enhancement reporting systems, etc. With the Performance Review Toolbox, you can use MATLAB to mine all the sources for good information, do affinity analysis to see what the big themes have been.  After generating the outline for your document, you then can modify it to your liking.  With the new outline in hand, you then use MATLAB to generate a draft of your self-review.<\/p><h4>Providing Peer Comments<a name=\"c7336a7b-b06a-4549-a59a-33a1527263b6\"><\/a><\/h4><p>Another part of the review process is providing peer review comments.  In a similar way to writing your review, the Performance Review Toolbox can assist you by again searching the proper sources for interactions you've had in the past year working with the individual for whom you need to write a peer quote.  Using sentiment analysis tools, you similarly generate an outline with the top plusses and areas for improvement. After modifying as necessary, generate the quote!<\/p><h4>Writing Reviews for Employees<a name=\"3e613c36-1efe-4a7c-b5b5-7f2008379811\"><\/a><\/h4><p>If you are a manager, I am sorry.  Version 1 of the Performance Review Toolbox does not generate reviews automatically for your use for your employees.  It's a much requested feature.<\/p><h4>Early Reviews<a name=\"a6721629-c287-4c07-8f74-04e0ad4ba44a\"><\/a><\/h4><p>Early reviews of this new product are promising.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/loren\/2019\/perfReview.png\" alt=\"\"> <\/p><h4>Would This Be Helpful for Your Workplace?<a name=\"df2cef3f-1ad0-4b30-8b69-fbcaffb1d2a4\"><\/a><\/h4><p>If so, please first note the post's date, then let us know <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/?p=3284#respond\">here<\/a>.<\/p><script language=\"JavaScript\"> <!-- \r\n    function grabCode_7e8bf36a95904145a366a5c8f4abd862() {\r\n        \/\/ Remember the title so we can use it in the new page\r\n        title = document.title;\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Break up these strings so that their presence\r\n        \/\/ in the Javascript doesn't mess up the search for\r\n        \/\/ the MATLAB code.\r\n        t1='7e8bf36a95904145a366a5c8f4abd862 ' + '##### ' + 'SOURCE BEGIN' + ' #####';\r\n        t2='##### ' + 'SOURCE END' + ' #####' + ' 7e8bf36a95904145a366a5c8f4abd862';\r\n    \r\n        b=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];\r\n        i1=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t1)+t1.length;\r\n        i2=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t2);\r\n \r\n        code_string = b.innerHTML.substring(i1, i2);\r\n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/REPLACE_WITH_DASH_DASH\/g,'--');\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Use \/x3C\/g instead of the less-than character to avoid errors \r\n        \/\/ in the XML parser.\r\n        \/\/ Use '\\x26#60;' instead of '<' so that the XML parser\r\n        \/\/ doesn't go ahead and substitute the less-than character. \r\n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/\\x3C\/g, '\\x26#60;');\r\n\r\n        copyright = 'Copyright 2019 The MathWorks, Inc.';\r\n\r\n        w = window.open();\r\n        d = w.document;\r\n        d.write('<pre>\\n');\r\n        d.write(code_string);\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Add copyright line at the bottom if specified.\r\n        if (copyright.length > 0) {\r\n            d.writeln('');\r\n            d.writeln('%%');\r\n            if (copyright.length > 0) {\r\n                d.writeln('% _' + copyright + '_');\r\n            }\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        d.write('<\/pre>\\n');\r\n\r\n        d.title = title + ' (MATLAB code)';\r\n        d.close();\r\n    }   \r\n     --> <\/script><p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: xx-small; font-weight:lighter;   font-style: italic; color: gray\"><br><a href=\"javascript:grabCode_7e8bf36a95904145a366a5c8f4abd862()\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;        font-style: italic;\">Get \r\n      the MATLAB code <noscript>(requires JavaScript)<\/noscript><\/span><\/a><br><br>\r\n      Published with MATLAB&reg; R2019a<br><\/p><\/div><!--\r\n7e8bf36a95904145a366a5c8f4abd862 ##### SOURCE BEGIN #####\r\n%% New Product - Performance Review Toolbox\r\n% I'm pleased to announce the introduction of a new product today, the\r\n% Performance Review Toolbox. 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