Chapter 8

Stage 4: Analytics Coding to Maintain Data Provenance

Summary

This chapter continues to explore program code for the Analytics stage of the Guerrilla Analytics workflow. In particular, we now focus on how best to manipulate data with program code so that data provenance is maintained. In this chapter you will learn simple tips and tricks that make it much easier to determine where data came from, how they were manipulated and changed, and how they contributed to a final work product.

Keywords

Programming
Analytics
Data Provenance

8.1. Guerrilla Analytics workflow

As in the previous chapter, we are still at the analytics workflow stage of writing program code to do data analytics. This is stage 4 in Figure 22. Data has been sourced, ...

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