Insight Analysis
This page describes the Insights Analysis capability.
Exploring the Automated Insights list that can be found in the Right Sidebar of the Advisor Workspace, you are able to understand what happened in the data related to a specific Topic.
These information add valuable insights without whom it is difficult to fully understand the answer to your question.
But this is not all: Crystal is able to dig even deeper!
You can request an Insight Analysis and get straight to the point of why and how the events described in the Automated Insight happened.
This in-depth exploration will help you understand your data make data-driven decisions without losing sight of any piece of information.
In particular, Insights Analysis is based on a Data Analysis technique called Diagnostic Analytics.
Pills of Data Analysis
Diagnostic Analytics are information that describe the reasons why an observed pattern or trend has happened.
For example, they can describe what went well, what went wrong, and what had the most significant influence.
Understand The Whys
Let's see how to request and receive an Insight Analysis:
after asking a question, find the list of Automated Insights that appears on the right
you can see that some Insights have an "Analyze" option available
Remember
Right now, Insight Analysis can be requested for all Topics and it's only available for the Top Contributor, Average and Variability and Extreme Values Insights.
click on the “Analyze” icon for the Insight of interest
after that, you will see a banner notifying you that the analysis has started: Crystal has started processing your analysis to uncover reasons behind the Insights
remember that this may take several minutes, depending on the amount of data that needs to be processed
once your analysis is complete, you'll receive a notification
once you open the notification, you can access to the result of the analysis in the intro message of the Topic
How Does It Work?
Once an Insight is chosen, Crystal identifies the appropriate Data Model for analysis.
A Data Model is a consolidated view of data tailored for specific analytics needs. It is useful to find relationships between data.
In this case, the Data Model is constructed by linking the various data inputs that led to the construction of the Topic: Crystal creates an extended version made by combining various data inputs used to create the original Topic.
Diagnostic Analytics will then use this Extended model, excluding the columns not used in all the Topic Configurations within the specific project.
This approach aims to highlight the main Factors behind an Insight, helping you understand the data better.
Rules
Right now, Insight Analysis can be requested for all Topics and it's only available for the Top Contributor, Average and Variability and Extreme Values Insights
Insight Analysis is only available on Insights generated from Configured Topics, i.e. the ones that have been manually created by the Admin, whereas auto-generated Topics are not supported
To access the Diagnostic Analytics, you need to first access the Automated Insights
The process of requesting and receiving an Analysis is asynchronous: the average waiting time is correlated to the DB size
For a small or medium sized DB, you can expect a processing time of around 5 minutes
You can request only a one Analysis at a time for each Card that supports the Diagnostic Analytics
If you attempt to request an analysis that is already in progress, you will be informed that the analysis is still being processed and he should wait for the dedicated notification
Limitations
You can't receive the analysis if the Topic from which the Insight was generated has no a real Extended Data Model associated with it: this means that the original Joined Fact Table doesn’t contain any extra Entity other than the ones that are already available in the Topic
A Diagnostic Analysis can’t be performed if a Topic only has categorical columns: this could be the case for Lists and Descriptions; however, applicability may vary depending on the specific configuration of the Topic
A Diagnostic Analysis can’t be performed if a Topic has at least one Custom Column
If you don't have the permissions for certain underlying data, you will receive a partial analysis with that data hidden: the analysis will reveal informations about the Dynamic Filter Value that drove the Insight, but inform you that more details aren't available due to missing permissions
There may be a constraint regarding the number of rows the Feature can handle, though it is estimated to be around hundreds of thousands, chosen from the most recent rows in the considered Data Model of the analyzed insight
Insight Analyses Catalog
The Diagnostic Analytics provide different possible outcomes, common to the Insights in focus.
In particular, Crystal can tell you:
| N. | Insight Analysis |
|---|---|
1 | Which Entity has contributed the most in achieving the result mentioned in the Insight (e.g. "Country"). |
2 | Within the selected Entity, identifies the one specific Entity Value that has greatest impact on the result mentioned in the Insight (e.g. "Italy"). |
3 | How and by how much the result mentioned in the Insight would be impacted if the Entity Value that has the greatest impact would be excluded. |
Keep analyzing your data!
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