Interesting thought process to identify analytical approaches

Courtesy of a colleague in the medical data management world – check out this graphic. It is missing a few approaches, but lays out the thought process well.

The Booz Allen Field Guide to Data Science has a similar linkage that is useful. That book can be downloaded here

While I am at at, I found this good book Managing Research Data by Graham-Pryor that focuses on managing research data. I continue to be surprised at the approaches taken by “traditional” data management folks to feed the analytical processes. The old school way of dealing with analytics data did not work well which has created some of the organizational work arounds that exist in companies. This only gets worse when dealing with large amounts of data, and data that must work across systems / sources.