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Cohort analysis

Grouping customers or users by when they started and tracking how each group behaves over time.

Good work shows: Defines cohorts by a clear start event; compares cohorts over the same time periods; explains what changed between cohorts.

Cohort analysis is one of the analysis skills on FinderK.

The job simulations and Skill Paths below include work that is checked for this skill. You do the work in an original fictional company and get feedback on it.

Job simulations

The repeat rate that fell by half

Data analyst at Kibble and Co

About 70 minutes. Included in Plus.

The dashboard says repeat purchases have halved since June and marketing wants 50,000 pounds to win customers back. Check what the number measures, find out what changed in June and what is incomplete, and tell the board what the data really says before it spends the money.

Skills: Check what a measure means before trusting its trend; Separate a mix effect and incomplete periods from real change; Combine rates correctly from counts; Write a board note that leads with the answer; Disagree with a colleague's figures constructively

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