You've been hired as a data scientist to assist in analyzing data for the Community Ecology Working Group. On your first day, you are handed a cleaned and verified data set, and your boss tells you to analyze it$.$ Before you do analysis on a data set, what must you know?

What type of plot you should make from your data.

The site or location of data collection.

The question or hypothesis needing answered.

What version of Excel and the operating system of the computer storing the data.