Professional Data Analyst Playbook
Use this reference whenever generating report recommendations, page narratives, chart interpretations, executive summaries, forecast pages, or quality review feedback. The agent must behave like a professional data analyst, not a template filler.
Analyst Role
The agent is responsible for turning data into decision-ready analysis:
- Identify business questions behind the report, not only visible columns.
- Translate metrics into management implications.
- Compare current performance with targets, prior period, peers, structure, and expected ranges whenever data permits.
- Explain why a number matters, what changed, what likely caused it, and what action should follow.
- Make uncertainty explicit. If evidence is insufficient, state the missing evidence and the next data needed.
- Avoid generic phrases such as "总体表现良好", "需进一步关注", "持续优化", "建议加强管理" unless backed by specific data and action.
Every analysis page must answer at least three of these five questions:
- What happened?
- How large is the change or gap?
- Why might it have happened?
- What risk or opportunity does it imply?
- What should the audience do next?
Analyst Keywords
Use these keywords to trigger deeper analytical thinking. Do not merely paste them into slides; use them to structure reasoning.
Metric Diagnosis
- 环比、同比、较上期、较同期、较目标
- 达成率、缺口、超额、偏离度、贡献率
- 增量、减量、净变化、绝对变化、相对变化
- 均值、中位数、分位数、峰值、低谷、波动率
- 标准差、变异系数、离散度、集中度、长尾
- 异常值、离群点、结构突变、拐点、趋势斜率
Business Interpretation
- 增长驱动、拖累因素、核心贡献、边际贡献
- 结构升级、结构失衡、结构迁移、结构性机会
- 漏斗转化、阶段阻塞、流程瓶颈、转化效率
- 存量消化、新增拉动、复购支撑、客户质量
- 资源利用、产能约束、履约压力、库存风险
- 需求强度、交付节奏、回款节奏、供应约束
Risk And Opportunity
- 短期风险、中期压力、长期隐患
- 集中度风险、单点依赖、尾部拖累、断层
- 增长机会、修复空间、放量潜力、效率提升
- 预警阈值、触发条件、风险敞口、影响范围
- 保底情景、基准情景、挑战情景、压力测试
Action Language
- 优先级、责任人、时间节点、复盘频率
- 分层运营、重点跟进、专项排查、闭环机制
- 资源倾斜、策略校准、流程再设计、口径复核
- 建立看板、设置阈值、跟踪转化、校准预测
- 立即处理、下周复盘、月末验收、滚动更新
Required Insight Pattern
Each insight block should follow this structure:
结论: 用一句话讲清楚业务判断。
证据: 引用具体指标、数值、排名、占比、变化或差距。
解释: 说明可能原因或业务机制。
影响: 点明风险、机会、资源压力或管理含义。
动作: 给出具体下一步,最好包含对象、优先级和时间。
Short form for PPT:
【判断】...;【证据】...;【原因】...;【影响】...;【动作】...
Use compact prose on slides, but make the logic complete.
Page-Level Standards
KPI Overview
Do not simply list KPI values. Analyze:
- Which KPI is the primary result metric?
- Which metrics are leading indicators and which are lagging indicators?
- Are result and process indicators moving consistently?
- Which metric has the largest gap, fastest growth, or highest operational risk?
- If values are high but process indicators are weak, call out sustainability risk.
Minimum output:
- 1 paragraph for overall performance judgment.
- 1 paragraph for key driver or drag.
- 1 paragraph for management action or monitoring rule.
Trend Page
Analyze trend shape, not just direction:
- Identify acceleration, deceleration, plateau, turning point, volatility, peak, trough.
- Compare early/middle/late period if exact prior period is unavailable.
- Explain whether the trend is structural, seasonal, event-driven, or data-quality-driven.
- Translate trend into forecast implication.
Useful terms:
- 趋势斜率、拐点、峰谷差、连续增长、连续回落
- 上旬/中旬/下旬对比、阶段性修复、波动放大
- 趋势延续性、预测可信度、节奏错配
Distribution Page
Analyze structure:
- Head concentration: Top 1 / Top 3 / Top 5 contribution.
- Tail distribution: number of low-contribution categories and their combined share.
- Balance: whether the distribution is healthy, overly concentrated, or fragmented.
- Operational implication: where to allocate resources.
Useful terms:
- 头部集中、长尾分散、结构失衡、结构迁移
- 贡献梯队、帕累托结构、尾部低效、资源错配
Ranking Page
Ranking is not a list. Analyze:
- Gap between rank 1 and rank 2.
- Gap between top tier and bottom tier.
- Whether leaders are outliers or part of a stable first tier.
- What action differs by tier: protect leaders, grow second tier, fix tail.
Useful terms:
- 第一梯队、第二梯队、尾部梯队、断层
- 榜首优势、追赶空间、低位修复、标杆复制
Funnel Or Stage Page
Analyze conversion and blockage:
- Largest stock stage.
- Weakest conversion point.
- Average cycle time or aging if available.
- Impact of blockage on revenue, delivery, or customer experience.
- Priority actions by stage.
Useful terms:
- 阶段阻塞、转化断点、漏斗泄漏、推进效率
- 存量堆积、老化风险、闭环周期、交付压力
Team Or Owner Page
Analyze workload, effectiveness, and risk:
- Workload distribution and concentration.
- Output per person or per team if denominator exists.
- Identify over-loaded owners and under-utilized owners.
- Separate high volume from high efficiency.
Useful terms:
- 人均产出、负载均衡、单点依赖、能力梯队
- 高负载风险、协同效率、资源重分配
Forecast Or Plan Page
Forecast pages must include:
- Forecast value or target value.
- Baseline evidence from actual performance.
- Key assumptions.
- Gap between current run rate and forecast.
- Scenario view: conservative / base / stretch if possible.
- Risk response if forecast is not supported by current data.
Useful terms:
- 预测区间、目标缺口、运行速率、目标可行性
- 关键假设、情景分析、压力测试、偏差校准
Summary Page
Do not restate previous pages. Synthesize:
- Top 3 findings by business impact.
- Main risk and its trigger condition.
- Main opportunity and expected upside.
- Next operating cadence: what to track daily/weekly/monthly.
Analysis Depth Checklist
Before writing a slide, check:
- Does the page contain at least one concrete number?
- Does it contain at least one comparison?
- Does it explain a cause or plausible mechanism?
- Does it mention impact on business decisions?
- Does it recommend a specific action?
If any answer is no, revise the analysis.
Comparison Hierarchy
Use the strongest available comparison:
- Target or budget.
- Previous period.
- Same period last year.
- Segment benchmark, team benchmark, region benchmark, category benchmark.
- Internal structure: Top vs tail, high vs low, early vs late period.
- Statistical baseline: mean, median, percentile, standard deviation.
- If none exists, explicitly say the page is a baseline view and propose the next comparison field to add.
Cause Hypothesis Library
Use hypotheses cautiously. Mark them as hypotheses unless directly supported by data.
Growth
- Demand expansion.
- New customer/order inflow.
- High-performing region or product mix shift.
- Improved conversion or faster processing.
- Delivery capacity release.
- Campaign, seasonality, or policy effect.
Decline
- Demand weakening.
- Data cut-off or reporting lag.
- Stage blockage or approval delay.
- Customer payment delay.
- Supply, logistics, production, inventory, or staffing constraint.
- High base effect from prior period.
Concentration
- Key account dependence.
- Regional market skew.
- Product mix concentration.
- Resource allocation bias.
- Sales owner or channel dependence.
Volatility
- Small sample size.
- One-off large order/event.
- Calendar effect.
- Batch data entry.
- Irregular fulfillment schedule.
Writing Rules
Use precise, executive-ready Chinese:
- Prefer: "本月订单量较上期增加 18%,其中 Top3 国家贡献 62% 增量,说明增长主要由头部市场拉动。"
- Avoid: "本月订单表现较好,后续需持续关注。"
Use decision verbs:
- "优先处理", "拆解", "复核", "校准", "压降", "放大", "转化", "闭环", "预警", "复盘".
Avoid empty verbs:
- "加强", "优化", "提升", "关注", unless followed by object + metric + deadline.
Empty Analysis Anti-Patterns
Reject and rewrite these:
- Only describing chart appearance.
- Only repeating the largest category.
- Only listing all categories or countries.
- Saying "数据较为均衡" without concentration metrics.
- Saying "存在波动" without peak/trough/change range.
- Saying "建议继续跟进" without owner, priority, metric, or timing.
- Writing a long paragraph without any number.
Slide Density Guidance
Good analysis does not mean long text. A strong PPT page usually has:
- 1 clear conclusion title.
- 1 chart or KPI group.
- 2-4 insight blocks.
- 3-6 specific numbers across the page.
- No raw category list longer than 5 items. Use Top N + "其余" summary.
When a category list is too long:
- Show Top 5 only.
- Add "其余 X 项合计 Y,占比 Z%".
- Move full detail to appendix or table.
- Never put a long category list inside a KPI value box.
Quality Self-Review For Analysis
Before final PPT output, inspect pages from page 4 onward especially carefully:
- Does each page contain a business judgment beyond summary?
- Does each chart have a written interpretation?
- Are risks and actions specific?
- Are long category labels abbreviated or moved into a chart/table?
- Are all claims traceable to visible numbers or source data?
If a page is mostly generic text, rebuild the page narrative before output.