BigQuery ML contribution analysis, now generally available, allows for automating insight generation and identifying key change drivers from multidimensional data for quicker decision-making.
The GA version of contribution analysis introduces new features such as automated support tuning with top-k insights by apriori support and improved insight readability with redundant insight pruning.
With the new pruning_method option, users can choose to prune redundant insights to see only unique insights, enhancing the clarity of analysis results.
Further, expanded metric support includes the summable by category metric, enabling analysis of metrics normalized by unique values of a categorical variable.
This metric is useful for adjusting outliers in data and comparing different numbers of rows in test and control datasets.
A retail sales example is provided to demonstrate how to utilize contribution analysis in BigQuery ML to identify key contributors to changes in product sales.
By creating a summable by category metric contribution analysis model, users can efficiently extract insights by setting various options such as top_k_insights_by_apriori_support.
The model output provides ordered insights by contribution value, aiding in understanding the impact of different variables on the metric of interest.
Utilizing contribution analysis can help businesses quickly pinpoint areas of improvement based on data-backed insights, ultimately enhancing decision-making processes.
To explore contribution analysis further, users are encouraged to refer to the tutorial and documentation for a hands-on experience with their own datasets.