Modify an analysis — how it works | MCP Analytics
Modify

Change the question without starting over.

Analyses are rarely right first time — you see the answer and realise you asked slightly the wrong thing. Modifying keeps everything that was already correct and changes only what you want changed.

Modify an analysis Commission a new one instead →

  1. Start from what existsAn analysis you already have, with its data, its method and its output intact.
  2. Say what should be differentAdd a variable, split by a new group, change the outcome, tighten a threshold. In plain language, as before.
  3. Only the affected parts rebuildWhat your change does not touch is not re-derived, so the parts you already trusted stay as they were.
  4. The lineage is keptThe original stays intact and the new version records what changed. You can always show which answer came from which question.

Why not just start again?

Because you would lose the comparison. Rebuilding from scratch gives you two answers with no guarantee they were produced the same way — modifying gives you two answers that differ only where you intended.

The other things you can do

CreateCommission an analysis for a question nobody has asked yet…RunRun an analysis again, on data that has changed.… BrowseStart from a prebuilt analysis — already built and verified.