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stable_id: skills/knowledge-work-plugins-data-skills-explore-data-skill
type: skills
title: explore-data
summary: Profile and explore a dataset to understand its shape, quality, and
  patterns. Use when encountering a new table or file, checking null rates and
  column distributions, spotting data quality issues like duplicates or
  suspicious values, or deciding which dimensions and metrics to analyze.
tags:
  - source-knowledge-work-plugins
  - plugin-data
  - plugin-component-skills
  - plugin-skill
  - category-data-analytics
source_url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/main/data/skills/explore-data/SKILL.md
license: ""
upstream_ref: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/main/data/skills/explore-data/SKILL.md
github_stars: null
github_forks: null
github_is_organization: null
retrieved_at: 2026-06-11T08:32:49.300Z
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