Exploratory Data Analysis

Overview

Perform comprehensive exploratory data analysis (EDA) on scientific data files across multiple domains. This skill provides automated file type detection, format-specific analysis, data quality assessment, and generates detailed markdown reports suitable for documentation and downstream analysis planning.

Key Capabilities:

• Automatic type detection for ~90 file extensions in the analyzer script (gzip/bz2/xz-compressed variants such as .fastq.gz included), with reference entries for 200+ formats
• Comprehensive format-specific metadata extraction
• Data quality and integrity assessment
• Statistical summaries and distributions
• Visualization recommendations
• Downstream analysis suggestions
• Markdown report generation

When to Use This Skill