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Data Analytics case 1: Root-cause analysis for Finance
Scenario
You are a data professional. An insurance company has an issue: amount has jumped and managers do not know which region is causing it. As a Data Analyst, you are tasked to solve it.
Question
Find the group driving the total and show it in a chart.
Your task
- Read the problem
- Write your solution in the editor
- Press Check my answer
- Deliverable: Bar chart and the name of the biggest driver
- On success it is published as its own portfolio project
Data Analytics · Problem Solving & Root Cause Analysis — question 1 of 30
1. Choose your dataset
Pick an industry and a size. Your code and results change to match.
Data Analytics case 1: Root-cause analysis for Finance
Find the group driving the total and show it in a chart.
Your code cell is below. Press Check my answer to run the cell — the result appears as Out [1].
💡 Explain my whole code, line by line (hover any word in the editor for a tip)
🌈 In short — no coding words
Altogether: this script runs top to bottom, one line at a time, building up the answer step by step.
Dataset & schema
payments
The tiny starter data. Bigger data scrolls.
Fields
| payment_id | region | amount |
|---|---|---|
| P1 | North | 500 |
| P2 | South | 200 |
| P3 | North | 900 |
| P4 | East | 300 |
Finance data only.
$ Press “Check my answer” — results appear here.Your next steps
Each item turns green when your answer includes it.
- Groups data
- Sorts
- Charts it