Overview

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Analysis workflow

The analysis workflow describes the bigger picture of analysis and the different steps to undertake when analyzing a topic, and how each step builds upon the findings of the previous ones. Analysis needs to be planned and designed. The analysis workflow has four steps, each of which has several guiding questions and possible outputs. Four steps of analysis workflow Design Acquire Analyse (explore, describe, explain, interpret, prescribe) Communicate

• Design: The design phase precedes analytical processes and is about selecting the best strategies for ensuring quality analysis. It is preparatory in essence and elaborates and refine the focus, approach, method, tools, and plan necessary to provide relevant and credible conclusions.
  Preparedness (CODs, indicators, assessment registry, HID)
• Tips (e.g. six -hat or point system)

Analysis Spectrum and the HPC 

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• Exploratory
• Aggregation,  disaggregation
• Chronologies, timelines
• SDR
• Describe
• Prioritization (sudden onset)
• Severity (sudden onset)
• Explain
• Cause and effect
• Interpret
• Ratings, rankings and uncertainty
• Anticipate
• Prediction, forecasting
• scenario building

Exploratory

Focus: identify if data required is available (credible, reliable, timely) and structure it in a way that best suit the requirement and identifies information gaps. 

1. Familiarise yourself with the data and check its characteristics - How relevant, sufficient and reliable is the data?
2. Clean & enrich your data to ensure it is as good as it gets - How clean and ready for analysis is the data? Do I have enough data?
3. Are potential signals hidden in the data?
4. Sort, aggregate and disaggregate and define suitable taxonomy of categories. Code & refine your data – Can the data be better prepared for queries?
5. What are the main results so far?

Examples of analysis findings

• There is a variety of information sources on food insecurity in country X, primarily from IPC, Fewsnet, WFP and FAO.
• Some are purely observational, some are quantitative.
• Recent figures on food security are available after a comprehensive national survey by WFP
• Findings are mostly aligned.
• No recent information is available from the southern region where accessibility is limited
• There seem to be higher levels of food insecurity in rural areas.

Descriptive:

Explanatory:

Interpretive: 

Anticipatory: 

Prescriptive:

Process

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Outputs/Resources

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Guidance

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