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The Analytics Project Lifecycle

Intake and requirements, scoping, data access requests, building and validating, documentation, peer review, delivery, and maintaining analytics products.

From request to result

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1. Intake — capture the request, requester, purpose, deadline. 2. Discovery — clarify the real question and decision. 3. Scoping — define population, measures, time period, outputs; estimate effort. 4. Data access — approvals, privacy review, data sources. 5. Build — queries, transformations, analysis. 6. Validate — reconcile, audit samples, peer review. 7. Deliver — report/dashboard + explanation. 8. Maintain or close — refresh schedule, owner, retirement date.