Summary
In this chapter, we took some time to better understand how we should structure our data mining activities. Even if it felt like a pause in our exciting riding to R mastery, it was quite a useful one. You are now able to address any kind of data mining task as it shows up. All you have to do is to follow the logical and chronological path you have learned:
- Business understanding (what is the problem, what are the relevant questions?)
- Data understanding (which data is at my disposal to solve the problem?)
- Data preparation (get my data ready to work)
- Data modeling (try to get knowledge from the data to solve the problem)
- Evaluation (see if the problem found a question with your analysis)
- Deployment (place it in production, if needed)
You have a framework and a methodology to help you get started with your project, and this is really powerful. Ready to start riding again? Well, even if you are ready, you will have to wait for a few more pages: in the next chapter, we are going to take a close...