Early Delivery
Eric Carter, Matthew F. Hurst · Apress eBooks · 2019
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 we can make meaningful progress through these unknowns while engaging the customer and continuously improving our understanding of the data, its value, and the implications it holds for system design.