step retrieving data project charter requires teamworkand your input covers at least the followinga clear research goal the project mission and context how you're going to perform your analysis what resources you expect to use proof that it' an achievable projector proof of concepts deliverables and measure of success timeline your client can use this information to make an estimation of the project costs and the data and people required for your project to become success step retrieving data the next step in data science is to retrieve the required data (figure sometimes you need to go into the field and design data collection process yourselfbut most of the time you won' be involved in this step many companies will have already collected and stored the data for youand what they don' have can often be bought from third parties don' be afraid to look outside your organization for databecause more and more organizations are making even high-quality data freely available for public and commercial use data science process setting the research goal data retrieval internal data retrieving data data ownership external data data preparation data exploration data modeling presentation and automation figure step retrieving data data can be stored in many formsranging from simple text files to tables in database the objective now is acquiring all the data you need this may be difficultand even if you succeeddata is often like diamond in the roughit needs polishing to be of any use to you