Eric Goh Ming Hui
3 min readMar 14, 2023

What is Data Analysis Process?

Extracted from: https://www.datapine.com/blog/data-analysis-methods-and-techniques/

Identify

You need to identify why you need data analysis in the first place? The identification step is the you establish the question you need to answer. Identify step is like Business Understanding step in CRISP DM Process. To know more about CRISP DM, you can see: http://edatascience.great-site.net/2023/03/08/what-is-crisp-dm/

- Determine Business Objectives: Describe the problem you want to solve, specify all business questions as precise as possible, Determine any other business requirements, specify expected benefits in business

- Assessing the situations

- Determining Data Mining Goals: business success criterias

- Producing a Project Plan: Sample Project Plan - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spss-modeler/saas?topic=plan-sample-project

Collect

As the name suggest, this is the step you collect data. The collection of data can come from internal or external sources, survey, interviews, questionnaires, and focus groups. The data can also come from ETL - Extract data from difference databases, Transform…

Eric Goh Ming Hui

(G.Dip, M.Tech, eMBA) | Author of "Learn R for Applied Statistics" | Founder of SVBook Pte. Ltd. : http://svbook.great-site.net