Tips for analyzing data

Look for useful/ meaningful connections. Feel free to consult experts or look up information about your topic online to help you ask more meaningful questions about your data.

Go back and clean if necessary

You can look at only certain columns by using filter on Excel

If using Google sheets use Chrome  as add ons work much better in this browser
The following add ons are helpful in Google sheets: Power tools,  merge value (these help with structuring)

When analyzing copy all interesting graphs. It is easier to delete them and not use them later, than it is to find them if you don’t save them.

Correlation does not imply causation. Because something is a driver,  or a predictor of another value, it does not mean that it causes the other value.

Asking questions about your data in IBM Watson Analytics

How to join two previously uploaded data sets in Watson Analytics

Asking good questions to analyze your data

A tutorial video on making predictions

Three tips for finding relationships in data