End-to-End Data Science with SAS

Chapter 2: Example Step-by-Step Data Science Project

Overview

Business Opportunity

Initial Questions

What is the business opportunity?

Do we have the data to support this project?

What type of work has been done previously on this type of problem?

What does a solution look like?

Get the Data

Select a Performance Measure

Train / Test Split

Target Variable Analysis

Predictor Variable Analysis

Modeling Considerations

Numeric Variables

Character Variables

Dummy Variables

Adjusting the TEST Data Set

Building a Predictive Model

Baseline Models

Regression Models

Non-Parametric Models

Decision Time

Implementation

Chapter Review

Overview

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