Cogynt Quick Start Checklist

This checklist highlights the main steps involved in building and deploying a model in Cogynt. Where applicable, follow the links in each step for detailed instructions.

1. Project Planning
2. Uploading Data into Cogynt
3. Modeling and Deployment in Authoring
4. Reviewing and Reporting in Workstation

Project Planning

The first steps to using Cogynt effectively are to think through the purpose you want Cogynt to serve and to understand the data that your Cogynt instance will process.

1. Identify your objective: Articulate the problem you want to solve with Cogynt or the objective that you want Cogynt to fulfill.
2. Access domain expertise: Ensure that you have some domain knowledge in the area of your problem/objective; otherwise, work closely with a subject matter expert who understands the problem/objective.
3. Obtain data and data sources: Identify and acquire all the data you need to solve your issue.
4. Clean your data: Ensure that your data has been cleansed of errors, inconsistencies, corruptions, duplications, or missing entries.
5. Understand your data: Have a sense of how all your data relate to each other. This will help you construct an effective model in Authoring.

Uploading Data into Cogynt

When your problem is identified and your data is ready, the next step is to give Cogynt access to your data.

1. Prepare your data: Ensure that the data is properly formatted with the correct datatypes. This will allow Cogynt to read the data accurately. For more information, see Transforming Data in Modeling Best Practices.
2. Create a project: Make a project to contain your model. For more information, see Creating and Opening Projects in the Cogynt Authoring User Guide.
3. Get your data into Kafka: Configure a deployment target in Cogynt Authoring, then establish data source connections or upload any necessary data files using the Data Management Tool.

Modeling and Deployment in Authoring

Once your data is in Cogynt, the next step is to build and deploy a model using Cogynt Authoring.

1. Create event types that reference your data: Make event types to inform Cogynt what your data represents and how it should be considered. For more information, see Managing Event Types in the Cogynt Authoring User Guide.
2. Create patterns: Define the logic that your model will use to process and evaluate data. For more information, see Developing Models in the Cogynt Authoring User Guide.
3. Create a deployment for your model: Define the parameters under which your model will run. For more information, see Configuring Deployments in the Cogynt Authoring User Guide.
4. Deploy your model: Put your model into execution. For more information, see Initiating Deployments in the Cogynt Authoring User Guide.

Reviewing and Reporting in Workstation

Once your model has been deployed, the final step is to use Cogynt Analyst Workstation to review the model's findings.

1. Ingest data into Workstation: Configure Workstation to pull in your model's output. For more information, see Workstation Setup in the Cogynt Workstation User Guide.
2. Build a workspace: Configure a workspace to display the data and connections you wish to review. For more information, see Building Workstation Workspaces in the Cogynt Workstation User Guide.
3. Review model findings: Use your workspace to examine what your model has found. For more information, see Workstation Use in the Cogynt Workstation User Guide.
4. Create reports: Record your model's findings in reports for archival and distribution as necessary. For more information, see Report Builder in the Cogynt Workstation User Guide.