CRISP-DM

Question 1

What does CRISP-DM stand for?

Answer 1

Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining

Question 2

What is CRISP-DM?

Answer 2

A document created by Data Mining people which promotes a framework explaining the lifecycle of a DM project.

Created because DM practitioners thought their customers were using DM tools poorly.

Question 3

1st CRISP-DM step

Answer 3

Business understanding

Description of Business problem/hypothesis and formulation of lower level DM goals to achieve objectives.

Question 4

2nd CRISP-DM step

Answer 4

Data understanding

Collection of required data and EDA to ascertain key features of the data.

Question 5

3rd CRISP-DM step

Answer 5

Data preparation

Involves organising and adapting data for the modelling phase

Question 6

4th CRISP-DM step

Answer 6

Modelling

Different modelling approaches are applied to the data in an attempt to answer DM goals

Question 7

5th CRISP-DM step

Answer 7

Evaluation

Evaluation of any modelling results achieved

Question 8

6th CRISP-DM step

Answer 8

Deployment

Deployment of successful models - this could also involve presentation of findings to stakeholders - visualisations