Table 2 Steps and activities of the crisp-dm method

1. Business understanding

Determine business objectives

Assess situation

Determine data mining goals

Produce project plan

2. Data understanding

Collect initial data

Describe data

Explore data

Verify data quality

3. Data preparation

Select data

Clean data

Construct data

Integrate data

Format data

4. Modeling

Select modeling technique

Generate test design

Build model

Assess model

5. Evaluation

Evaluate results

Review process

Determine next steps

6. Deployment

Plan deployment

Plan monitoring and maintenance

Produce final report

Review project