Data Profiling trends provide a graphical visualization of changes in the data over a period of time. Trends can help you to predict future stat values based on the existing trend pattern. It provides businesses with crucial information that helps make data-driven decisions concerning future events.
The decisions can be related to marketing and sales, performance, expenditure, product development, customer experience, and more.You can view the trend for a specific statistic of a column-level stat as well as a table-level stat.
You can view profiling trends for the below statistics.
- Total records in a table
- Table completeness
- Column completeness and uniqueness.
- Numerical analysis statistics
- Data and time analysis statistics
- String analysis (Minimum and maximum length) statistics
- Confidence statistics for semantic type data
To view profiling trends:
- On the main navigation menu, click tab and click the profile name for which you want to view trends. Profiling results are displayed.
- Click the Trend icon
for
a statistic to view its trend based on the profiling run history.The trend is
shown in a side panel. The following details are displayed.
- Column Name/Table Name: Specifies the name of the table or the column.
- Stats Name: Specifies the statistic name.
- Graph: Shows the statistic trend in a graphical form.
- Table: Shows the history of profile run and its completeness.
- Period drop-down: Allows you to view the trend for a week, a month, a year, or all profile runs.