Chapter 4. Traffic Stops – Barking Up the Wrong Tree?
In the prior two chapters, you were a software developer who was injecting machine learning into their existing line of business application. In this chapter, we are going to put on our research analyst hat and see if we can discover some hidden insights from an existing dataset.
The scientific process
The research analyst historically followed this pattern of discovery and analysis:
![The scientific process](/api/v2/epubs/9781785888403/files/graphics/B05167_04_01.jpg)
With the rise of the data scientist, that workflow has changed to something like this:
![The scientific process](/api/v2/epubs/9781785888403/files/graphics/B05167_04_02.jpg)
Notice how the work does not ...
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