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Projects Flow

Description

  1. Business understanding: Get a clear understanding of the problem you're out to solve, how it impacts your organization, and your goals for addressing it. Tasks in this phase include:

    • Identifying your business goals
    • Assessing your situation
    • Defining your data mining goals
    • Producing your project plan

  2. Data understanding: Review the data that you have, document it, and identify data management and data quality issues. Tasks for this phase include:

    • Gathering data
    • Describing
    • Exploring
    • Verifying quality

  3. Data preparation: Get your data ready to use for modeling. Tasks for this phase include:

    • Selecting data
    • Cleaning data
    • Constructing
    • Integrating
    • Formatting

  4. Modeling: Use mathematical techniques to identify patterns within your data. Tasks for this phase include:

    • Selecting techniques
    • Designing tests
    • Building models
    • Assessing models

  5. Evaluation: Review the patterns you have discovered and assess their potential for business use. Tasks for this phase include:

    • Evaluating results

    • Reviewing the process

    • Determining the next steps

  6. Deployment: Put your discoveries to work in everyday business. Tasks for this phase include:

    • Planning deployment (your methods for integrating data mining discoveries into use)

    • Reporting final results

    • Reviewing final results