Making Sense of Data: A Practical Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining

1.5 DEPLOYMENT OF THE RESULTS

There are many ways to deploy the results of a data analysis or data mining project. Having analyzed the data, a static report to management or to the customer of the analysis is one option. Where the project resulted in the generation of predictive models to use on an ongoing basis, these models could be deployed as standalone applications or integrated with other softwares such as spreadsheets or web pages. It is in the deployment step that the analysis is translated into a benefit to the business, and hence this step should be carefully planned.