Here is a list of Steps to Data Analysis from the Data Analysis Coursera course.
- Define Question
- Define Ideal Dataset
- Define what data you can access
- Obtain the data
- Clean the data
- Exploratory Data analysis
- Statistical prediction
- Interpret results
- Challenge Results
- Writeup results
- Create reproducible code for others to recreate
Update: A couple of comments have been made indicating the following 2 steps be added.
- Missing Value Analysis
- Outlier management
What do you think? Is anything missing?