Analysis with Malloy

This skill covers two workflows:

• EDA exploration (Steps 1-6): iteratively query data, build hypotheses, validate findings
• View/dashboard building: create views, dashboards, notebooks from an existing model

Tool names are written bare here - get_context, execute_query, search_malloy_docs. The exact prefixed name depends on the host surface; match each against the tools you actually have.

To formalize analysis into a polished semantic model, hand off to the modeling skill's "Starting from Analysis" workflow (skill:malloy-model).

Prerequisites

• The Malloy MCP tools must be configured (get_context, execute_query, search_malloy_docs). If they are not available, STOP and ensure your host's MCP server is connected.
• Call search_malloy_docs liberally: it has powerful analysis patterns (window functions, cohorts, percent-of-total, nested drill-downs).

EDA WORKFLOW