data_generator = data.iterrows()

start_time = time.time()
for index, value in data_generator:
        sum([value[1], value[3], value[5], value[7]])
print("Time using .iterrows(){} seconds" % (time.time() - start_time))

Results from the above operation calculated in 3.37918996 seconds

start_time = time.time()
data[['R1', 'R2', 'R3', 'R4', 'R5']].apply(lambda x: sum(x),axis=1)
print("Results from the above operation calculated in %s seconds" % (time.time() - start_time))

Results from the above operation calculated in 0.637711048 seconds

- Difference between vectorization and the `.iterows()` function: 111,800.75%
- Difference between vectorization and the `.apply()` function: 20,853%