Over the last several years there have been several posts related to the parallelization of pandas.apply() or posts that describe problems that could be solved by structuring the data as a dataframe and using pandas.apply() if parallelization was implemented.
My question to the community of experts here - what is the status of this capability as R already has mclapply.
At the moment there is no clean standard solution. It is incredibly tedious to re-code entire functions and scripts to work with the proposed workarounds.
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