Profiling Trends

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
  • Validity and Confidence statistics for semantic type data

To view profiling trends:

  1. On the Data Profiles page, click the profile name for which you want to view trends.

    Profiling results are displayed. For details, refer to Profiling Results.

  2. 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.

    Table 1. Description of Trend Analysis
    Label Description
    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.