Survey: Difficulty and Importance of Various Modeling Steps

There are many steps required to build and deploy a system with a significant machine learning or data mining component. I am interested in how much time is spent per step in developing real systems and the community's opinion of the importance of the various steps.

As part of my dissertation I am conducting a short survey (5--10 minutes) of the community's experience with developing real systems. The survey can be found at:

www.cs.cornell.edu/~mmunson/model-step-survey.html

I would be grateful to anyone who can spare a few minutes to take the survey. Only aggregated statistics will be published. I will tabulate and post survey results at the above web page on March 6.

Thank you for your time, and I look forward to reading your survey responses.

Sincerely,
Art Munson
Cornell University
19 February 2010