This is where you develop and execute analytical pipelines to answer your research questions. These pipelines take the data from the data structure created in the Establishing the Data foundation phase and process them so they are ready for Dissemination and Communication It is thus a combination of the intellectual process of designing processing pipelines and a software-specific knowledge of how to implement these pipelines. We supply two tools for supporting this phase:
- In the section Common Analytical Patterns, we supply some examples showing how different typical analytical models operate.
- We strongly recommend using the SemanticGIS pipeline Language to develop and document the process. The SemanticGIS pipeline Language helps focus on the Abstract-First Design Pattern. It defines a tool-agnostic, abstract pipeline that represents the pure logic of the analysis.