The Noble Eightfold Path of Data Analysis

I title this post with the greatest admiration and respect for the Buddhist community. The Noble Eightfold Path is a very powerful system of principles, and while I would not apply it directly to the work of data analysis, I have been motivated by my professional experiences to try to develop a set of guiding principles for data analysis that would mirror the progressions we need to make if we are doing our work at its' highest level. I will develop these ideas in the upcoming series of posts.