Survey Results: Difficulty and Importance of Various Modeling Steps

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.

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 conducted a short survey of the community's experience with developing real systems.

These results will be published in my dissertation. Please contact me if you would like citation information. Please note the small sample sizes.

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