Business collect lots of data but often don’t have the time to spend on studying the data or methods to get information or insights from. One of the first steps prior to conducting any data analysis tasks is to summarise the data source or sources. As well as providing insights into the data itself, summarisation tasks can give businesses clarity and focus towards what the next steps of a business venture or data analysis process might be.

T3Data uses many different data summarisation techniques and methods to present business with a clear understanding of what data they have collected, what might be missing and the shape of the data. These might include:

• The basic shape and structure of the dataset
• Summary statistics
• Five-number summary
• Aggregate data
• Quantiles calculation and presentation