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title: "Answer Data Questions"
type: skill
id: "knowledge-work-plugins/data/analyze"
category: "Data"
publisher: "Anthropic"
license: "Apache-2.0"
source: "https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/d900840"
canonical: "https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/data/analyze"
open_in_pho: "https://pho.chat/customize?item=knowledge-work-plugins%2Fdata%2Fanalyze&utm_source=labs&utm_medium=skill-page&utm_campaign=skills-library"
---

# Answer Data Questions

Answer data questions -- from quick lookups to full analyses. Use when looking up a single metric, investigating what's driving a trend or drop, comparing segments over time, or preparing a formal data report for stakeholders.

Source: Anthropic (Apache 2.0), copied at a pinned commit. Free to use. Part of the Phở Skills library (https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills).
Skill set: Data (https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/data.md).

## What it covers
- Usage
- Workflow
  - 1. Understand the Question
  - 2. Gather Data
  - 3. Analyze
  - 4. Validate Before Presenting
  - 5. Present Findings
  - 6. Visualize Where Helpful
- Examples
- Tips

## Other skills in this set
- [Build Interactive Dashboards](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/data/build-dashboard.md): Build an interactive HTML dashboard with charts, filters, and tables. Use when creating an executive overview with KPI cards, turning query results into a shareable self-contained report, building a…
- [Create Visualizations](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/data/create-viz.md): Create publication-quality visualizations with Python. Use when turning query results or a DataFrame into a chart, selecting the right chart type for a trend or comparison, generating a plot for a…
- [Data Context Extractor](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/data/data-context-extractor.md): Generate or improve a company-specific data analysis skill by extracting tribal knowledge from analysts. BOOTSTRAP MODE - Triggers: "Create a data context skill", "Set up data analysis for our…
- [Data Visualization Skill](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/data/data-visualization.md): Create effective data visualizations with Python (matplotlib, seaborn, plotly). Use when building charts, choosing the right chart type for a dataset, creating publication-quality figures, or…
- [Profile and Explore a Dataset](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/data/explore-data.md): Profile and explore a dataset to understand its shape, quality, and patterns. Use when encountering a new table or file, checking null rates and column distributions, spotting data quality issues…
- [SQL Queries Skill](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/data/sql-queries.md): Write correct, performant SQL across all major data warehouse dialects (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, PostgreSQL, etc.). Use when writing queries, optimizing slow SQL, translating between…
- [Statistical Analysis Skill](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/data/statistical-analysis.md): Apply statistical methods including descriptive stats, trend analysis, outlier detection, and hypothesis testing. Use when analyzing distributions, testing for significance, detecting anomalies…
- [Validate Analysis Before Sharing](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/data/validate-data.md): QA an analysis before sharing -- methodology, accuracy, and bias checks. Use when reviewing an analysis before a stakeholder presentation, spot-checking calculations and aggregation logic, verifying…
- [Write Optimized SQL](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/data/write-query.md): Write optimized SQL for your dialect with best practices. Use when translating a natural-language data need into SQL, building a multi-CTE query with joins and aggregations, optimizing a query…

## Use it
- In Phở: open https://pho.chat/customize?item=knowledge-work-plugins%2Fdata%2Fanalyze&utm_source=labs&utm_medium=skill-page&utm_campaign=skills-library and press Try, or add it so Phở loads it whenever a request matches. Phở works with your own API key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others).
- Full instructions (original SKILL.md, unchanged): https://labs.pho.chat/skills/raw/knowledge-work-plugins/data/skills/analyze/SKILL.md
- Original files: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/d900840 (Apache 2.0).
- Full machine-readable index: https://labs.pho.chat/skills.json