Data Analysis Checklist

I've spent the evening and early morning hours reading The Elements of Data Analytic Style - A guide for people who want to analyze data by Jeff Leek (This book is for sale at http://leanpub.com/datastyle), and wanted to post this amazing data analysis checklist here so that I may continually refer back to it. 

The data analysis Checklist -- A way to evaluate the quality of a reported data analysis.

14.1 Answering the question

1. Did you specify the type of data analytic question (e.g.

exploration, association causality) before touching the

data?

2. Did you define the metric for success before beginning?

3. Did you understand the context for the question and

the scientific or business application?

4. Did you record the experimental design?

5. Did you consider whether the question could be answered with the available data?

Half a Year Later...

Wow, I can't believe it's been nearly half a year since I worked on my computer science studies. I've spent the last three months or so developing wood burning skills, which I have greatly enjoyed. I've also been missing my time in the ether. I'm going to attempt to divide my extracurricular endeavors between crafting and coding.