Analytics Design

Analytics Design

Rules: Follow document-writing and text-formatting-ja for Japanese documents.

Workflow

Use references/analytics-design-template.md to document every analysis.

1. Clarify Purpose: What do you want to know? Why is this analysis needed? Who will use it? One-time or ongoing monitoring?

2. Discover Data: Explore available datasets and understand schema.

   • Ask user for project/dataset context and business background
   • Use /bq-query skill for BigQuery schema exploration
   • db/schema.rb for Rails projects
   • API docs or sample data for external services
   • Document schema and table relationships in the report

3. Build Query: Use /bq-query skill to design and execute queries.

   • Requirements and schema from Steps 1-2 provide context
   • Interpret results and document findings

4. Create Dashboard (if ongoing monitoring needed):

   • Use references/looker-studio-template.md to design
   • Define decisions: What actions will users take based on this dashboard?
   • Check existing resources: Similar dashboards or queries already exist?
   • Align time granularity with usage frequency (daily/weekly/monthly)
   • Design data sources, pages, and charts

Looker Studio Best Practices

Reference Documentation

• Data types: Field data types (Number, Text, Date & Time, Currency, Percent, etc.)
• Types of charts: Chart types (Time series, Combo chart, Table, etc.)
• Parameters: Data source parameters

Settings Documentation

• Verify setting names against actual Looker Studio UI before documenting
• Use exact terminology from the UI

Data Source Design

• One data source per analytical purpose
• Pre-aggregate in SQL for performance
• Include bucket fields for distribution analysis
• Include sort-order fields for proper chart ordering
• Descriptive data source names

Report Structure

• Separate pages by time granularity (daily/monthly)
• Group related metrics per page
• Consistent filter scopes within pages

Chart Type Selection