Run Contribution Analysis
Contribution Analysis is an intensive machine learning process designed to uncover contributors to an observed anomaly in Adobe Analytics. The intent is to assist the user in finding areas of focus or opportunities for additional analysis much more quickly than would otherwise be possible.
Run Contribution Analysis run
There are two ways to invoke contribution analysis in a project:
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In a freeform table with daily granularity, right-click any row and select Run Contribution Analysis. You can even run it on rows that do not display any anomaly.
note note NOTE We currently support contribution analysis only with daily granularity. 
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In a line chart, hover over an anomaly data point in a line chart. Click the Analyze link that appears.
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(Optional) After you have clicked Run Contribution Analysis in either the line chart or a table, you can narrow the scope of (and thus speed up) the analysis by excluding dimensions.
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Wait while your contribution analysis loads. This could take a considerable amount of time, depending on the size of your report suite and the number of dimensions. Contribution analysis performs analysis on the top 50,000 items per dimension.
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Analysis Workspace then loads a new Contribution Analysis panel directly within this project.
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A visualization that shows the number of Visits on that day.
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A monthly Visits Trend line for context.
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Top Items that contributed to this anomaly, sorted by the contribution score, plus the metric in question, and a Unique Visitors metric to put the metric in context from a sizing perspective.
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The Generated Segments (Top Item Clusters) table identifies associations of top items based on the Contribution Score, anomaly occurrences, and overall percentage contributing to the anomalous metric. This is then captured as an audience segment (Contribution Segment 1, Contribution Segment 2, etc.). Clicking the “i” (info) button will give you a view of each auto segment’s definition, including which top items it is made up of:
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Since contribution analysis is now part of Analysis Workspace, you can take advantage of a number of its features from a table’s right-click menu to make your analysis even more meaningful, such as:
Exclude dimensions from Contribution Analysis exclude
There may be times when you want to exclude some dimensions from Contribution Analysis. For example, you may not care about any browser- or hardware-related dimensions at all, and you want to speed up analysis by removing them.
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After you have clicked Run Contribution Analysis (or Analyze in a line chart), the Excluded Dimensions panel displays.
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Just drag any unwanted dimensions into the Excluded Dimensions panel, then save the list by clicking Set as Default. Or, click Clear All to start over with selecting dimensions to exclude.
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After you have added dimensions to exclude (or chosen not to), click Run Contribution Analysis again.
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If you ever need to revise the list of excluded dimensions, just double click Dimensions, and the list of excluded dimensions displays:
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Just delete any unwanted dimensions by clicking the x next to them, then save the list by clicking Set as Default.