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Perform descriptive and diagnostic analysis on datasets

Perform descriptive and diagnostic analysis on datasets

- [Instructor] While we are creating the reports using Power BI, we can perform descriptive and diagnostic analysis on the data set. Let's go ahead and explore what are the ways in which we can perform descriptive and diagnostic analysis, and what are the other options that are available for us when it comes to analysis. Talking about the descriptive analysis, descriptive analytics looks into the historical data and identifies the data patterns and trends. Each organization has a specific way in which they are doing their data analysis. In descriptive analysis, we try to analyze the historical data and understand where the data distribution is different. This helps us to understand the distribution trend and bring our focus to the areas where the data distribution could be different. Once when we have understood the data trend in the descriptive analytics, we move on to the next stage that is diagnostic analysis.…

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