This page houses a list of some of the most popular data science methodologies used in the industry or academia to do efficient data science. You could use any of these to streamline your submission for the Datathon 🙂
What is the Team Data Science Process?
KDD Process in Data Mining - GeeksforGeeks
CRISP-DM: A framework for Data Mining & Analysis
Data Science Project Methodology
Why we need a methodology for data science
5 Steps to a Data Science Project Lifecycle - LEAD
If you are an absolute beginner who is not looking to make a submission for the Datathon, but just looking for a very simple framework to have fun with a dataset, I have a recommendation for you. You could try the 3-step framework that I have named CPA (Collect. Play. Action).