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## Our process

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### Overview

This playbook provides guidance, at a high level, of the approach to initiatives taken by the NHSBSA Data Science team.

Our process involves four main steps. Each of these has multiple sub-steps. The process will usually not be fully sequential. Sometimes previous steps may be revisited, as the process is often cyclical in nature.

#### Process steps