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Data Science Methodology Overview

The lesson covers the foundational methodology of data science developed by John Rollins, which consists of 10 stages from Business Understanding to Feedback. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the business problem and selecting appropriate analytic approaches, including descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive methods. Additionally, it highlights decision tree classification as an accessible predictive analytics technique for non-data scientists.

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Data Science Methodology Overview

The lesson covers the foundational methodology of data science developed by John Rollins, which consists of 10 stages from Business Understanding to Feedback. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the business problem and selecting appropriate analytic approaches, including descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive methods. Additionally, it highlights decision tree classification as an accessible predictive analytics technique for non-data scientists.

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Lesson summary
Module 1 Lesson 1: From Problem to Approach

Congratulations! You have completed this lesson. At this point in the course, you know:

Foundational methodology, a cyclical, iterative data science methodology developed by John Rollins, consists of 10 stages, starting with Business
Understanding and ending with Feedback.
The primary goal of the Business Understanding stage is to understand the business problem and determine the data needed to answer the core business
question.

During the Analytic Approach stage, you can choose from descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytic approaches, whether to use
machine learning with clustering associations.

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Decision tree classification is a predictive analytics approach that's easy for non-data scientists to implement

Author(s)
Dr. Pooja
Patsy R. Kravitz

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