- Tags:: [[Working in data|Working In Data]] From [Decomposing Metrics, Part 1 - Dimensions / Martin Daniel | Observable](https://observablehq.com/@martinda/decomposing-metrics) > _Analysis_ comes from the greek world [_analúō_](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CE%BD%CE%AC%CE%BB%CF%85%CF%83%CE%B9%CF%82#grc), which means _dissolving a whole into its parts_. Nothing new under the sun since Aristotle: the modern field of _Analytics_ tries to untangle the components that explain the variation of a phenomemon of interest. > ## Map of contents ### Techie - [[Metrics layer|Metrics Layer]] - [[Probability distributions|Probability Distributions]] - [[Hypothesis testing|Hypothesis Testing]] - [[Product analytics and sequence analytics|Product Analytics And Sequence Analytics]] - [[Data viz|Data Viz]] - [[clustering|Clustering]] ### Business - [[Self service bi|Self Service Bi]] - [[forecasting|Forecasting]] - [[Metrics frameworks|Metrics Frameworks]] - [[attribution-models|Attribution Models]] - [[pca|Pca]] ## See also - [[Data analysis pitfalls|Data analysis pitfalls]] - [[Data methodology|Data Methodology]] - [[Software documentation|Software Documentation]]