Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable [data].
—agilemanifesto.org/principles
Data projects, unlike traditional software engineering projects, are almost entirely governed by a resource fraught with unknown patterns, distributions, and biases – the data. To successfully execute a project that delivers value through inference over data sets, a novel set of skills, processes, and best practices need to be adopted. In this chapter, we look at the initial stages of a project and how ...
