Data Science process
Define research goal
1:Setting the research goal Create project charter
Data retrieval
Internal data
Data ownership
2:Retrieving data External data
Errors from data entry
Physically impossible values
Data cleaning Missing values
Outliers
Spaces, typos,...
3:Data preparation Errors against codebook
Aggregating data
Extrapolating data
Data transformation
Derived measures
Creating dummies
Reducing number of variables
Merging/joining data sets
Combining data Set operators
Creating views
Simple graphs
Combined graphs
4:Data exploration Link and brush
Nongraphical techniques
Model and variable selection
Model execution
5:Data modeling
Model diagnostic and model comparison
Presenting data
6:Presentation and automation Automating data analysis
Figure 2.1 The six steps of the data science process