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name: data-analysis-prompt-framework
description: "Structure a data analysis request to get precise insights from a dataset. Use when the user wants help with Data Analysis Prompt Framework. Related topics: data, analytics, analysis."
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# Data Analysis Prompt Framework

Structure a data analysis request to get precise insights from a dataset.

## How to use this skill

1. Ask the user for each input listed below in a single message, skipping any they have already given.
2. Where options are listed, offer them, but accept other answers too.
3. Fill the answers into the prompt template, then follow the completed prompt to produce the result.

## Inputs

- **Data Type** (choose one: Sales data, Customer behaviour, Marketing metrics, Financial data, Survey results, Web analytics, Product usage, HR data, Other)
- **Data Source** (free text, e.g. "")
- **Time Period Covered** (free text, e.g. "")
- **Number of Records (approx)** (free text, e.g. "")
- **Primary Question to Answer** (longer free text)
- **Key Metrics to Analyse** (longer free text)
- **Audience for Results** (choose one: CEO/Exec, Marketing team, Engineering, Investors, Myself)
- **Input 8** (choose any: Descriptive statistics, Trend analysis, Cohort analysis, A/B test evaluation, Funnel analysis, Segmentation, Correlation analysis, Forecasting/prediction, Anomaly detection)
- **Preferred visualisation** (choose any: Bar chart, Line chart, Pie chart, Heat map, Table, Scatter plot)
- **Summary report format** (choose one: Executive summary (1 page), Detailed report, Slide deck outline, Dashboard mockup)

## Prompt template

## Introduction
Structure a precise data analysis request to extract meaningful insights from your dataset.

## Dataset Description
- Data Type: {{Data Type}}
- Data Source: {{Data Source}}
- Time Period Covered: {{Time Period Covered}}
- Number of Records (approx): {{Number of Records (approx)}}

## Analysis Goal
- Primary Question to Answer: {{Primary Question to Answer}}
- Key Metrics to Analyse: {{Key Metrics to Analyse}}
- Audience for Results: {{Audience for Results}}

## Analysis Type
{{Input 8}}

## Output Format
- Preferred visualisation: {{Preferred visualisation}}
- Summary report format: {{Summary report format}}

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Source: [Data Analysis Prompt Framework on PromptBuild](https://promptbuild.io/prompt/EegrC9fGYJHsNO5QPkTb/data-analysis-prompt-framework)