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Best Claude skills for data analysis

Data skills help your agent clean messy files, write SQL, build charts and explain what the numbers mean. The strongest ones force the agent to compute with code rather than estimate in prose, which is where most AI analysis goes wrong.

91 data analysis skills · ranked live · November 2026

The top 10. Ranked by the Alyn Score.

  1. Anthropic

    Skills

    #1
    Anthropic

    Xlsx

    Use this skill any time a spreadsheet file is the primary input or output. This means any task where the user wants to: open, read, edit, or fix an existing .xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx, .csv, or…

    192k3.8MScore 91
    Details
  2. Corey Haines

    Marketingskills

    #2
    Corey Haines

    Conversion Tracking

    When the user wants to set up, audit, or fix conversion tracking to Google Ads, Meta, GA4, LinkedIn, and TikTok, or asks why conversions are missing or doubled: GTM, pixels, CAPI, Enhanced…

    60k6.3MScore 90
    Details
  3. #3
    nextlevelbuilder

    UI UX Pro Max

    UI/UX design intelligence for web, mobile, and desktop. This skill should be used when designing, building, reviewing, or fixing interfaces, including pages, components, design systems…

    148k932kScore 89
    Details
  4. Corey Haines

    Marketingskills

    #4
    Corey Haines

    Ab Testing

    When the user wants to plan, run, or read A/B tests, or asks a judgement call on one: is the result real, can we stop, which version won, is this worth testing at all: sample size…

    60k6.3MScore 88
    Details
  5. Corey Haines

    Marketingskills

    #5
    Corey Haines

    Analytics

    When the user wants to set up or audit analytics, or asks whether a metric or number is calculated right, what to track, or how to name events: tracking plans, GA4, GTM, Mixpanel, PostHog…

    60k6.3MScore 88
    Details
  6. K-Dense

    Scientific Agent Skills

    #6
    K-Dense

    Deeptools

    NGS analysis toolkit. BAM to bigWig conversion, QC (correlation, PCA, fingerprints), heatmaps/profiles (TSS, peaks), for ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, ATAC-seq visualization.

    57k328kScore 84
    Details
  7. K-Dense

    Scientific Agent Skills

    #7
    K-Dense

    Exploratory Data Analysis

    Performs bounded, local exploratory analysis of explicitly supported scientific files. Supports redacted CSV/TSV/JSON profiles; optional NumPy, HDF5, FASTA/FASTQ, and basic image metadata…

    57k328kScore 84
    Details
  8. wshobson

    Agents

    #8
    wshobson

    Kpi Dashboard Design

    Design effective KPI dashboards with metrics selection, visualization best practices, and real-time monitoring patterns. Use this skill when building an executive SaaS metrics dashboard…

    42k2.6MScore 84
    Details
  9. sickn33

    Agentic Awesome Skills

    #9
    sickn33

    Ab Testing

    When the user wants to plan, design, or implement an A/B test or experiment, or build a growth experimentation program.

    49k584kScore 83
    Details
  10. sickn33

    Agentic Awesome Skills

    #10
    sickn33

    Accounting Software Selection

    Scores shortlisted accounting packages against 57 evidence-backed fields, emitted as CSV, SQL, JSON Schema or Notion on request. Use for choosing accounting software.

    49k584kScore 83
    Details

What makes a great data analysis skill.

  • Code-first analysis: pandas, SQL or spreadsheets, never mental math.

  • Checks for data quality before conclusions.

  • Chart guidance so outputs are readable, not decorative.

All 91 data analysis skills.

Corey Haines

Marketingskills

88
Corey Haines

marketing-loops

When the user wants a recurring marketing job an AI agent runs on a cadence or trigger, or asks what a weekly or daily automated check should do, remember, and when it should stop: SEO and…

60k6.3MMarketing

Corey Haines

Marketingskills

88
Corey Haines

pricing

When the user wants to set pricing and packaging, or asks what to charge, whether to raise prices, or how to move existing customers: tiers, value metrics, per-seat vs usage, freemium and…

60k6.3MMarketing

sickn33

Agentic Awesome Skills

81
sickn33

access-matrix

Access matrix of role-by-module permissions, with per-role scope, confidentiality level and SME tier, as CSV, SQL, JSON Schema or Notion on request. Use for access reviews.

49k584kData analysis

sickn33

Agentic Awesome Skills

81
sickn33

admin-access-register

Admin account register: system, main and backup admin, seats, plan, 2FA, shared logins and access-review dates, as CSV, SQL, JSON Schema or Notion on request. Use for access reviews.

49k584kData analysis

sickn33

Agentic Awesome Skills

81
sickn33

advanced-analytics-dashboard

Dashboard metric register: metric, source module, formula, period, value, target, trend, owner and last-updated, as CSV, SQL, JSON Schema or Notion on request. Use for KPI dashboards.

49k584kData analysis
74
phuryn

ab-test-analysis

Analyze A/B test results with statistical significance, sample size validation, confidence intervals, and ship/extend/stop recommendations. Use when evaluating experiment results, checking…

28k245kProduct management
74
phuryn

sql-queries

Generate SQL queries from natural language descriptions. Supports BigQuery, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and other dialects. Reads database schemas from uploaded diagrams or documentation. Use when…

28k245kData analysis

wondelai

Skills

71
wondelai

improve-business

Guided journey from a stalled, plateaued business to one with an honest diagnosis, a working operating rhythm, and offers repriced to real value. Orchestrates eight skills phase by phase -…

2.7k335kData analysis

wondelai

Skills

71
wondelai

improve-retention

Diagnose and fix retention problems using behavior design (B=MAP). Use when the user mentions "users sign up but dont stick around", "activation rate", "onboarding friction", "retention…

2.7k335kDesign

wondelai

Skills

71
wondelai

lean-analytics

Choose and audit startup metrics using Croll and Yoskovitz's "Lean Analytics". Use when the user mentions "what metrics should we track", "KPIs", "north star metric", "One Metric That…

2.7k335kData analysis

kostja94

Marketing Skills

60
kostja94

traffic-analysis

Compatibility pointer for source, UTM and direct-traffic analysis; maintained in Open Analytics.

1.1k231kMarketing

aipoch

Medical Research Skills

56
aipoch

cibersort-immune-infiltration-analysis

Use when estimating relative immune cell infiltration from a bulk expression matrix with a CIBERSORT-style nu-SVR deconvolution workflow based on an LM22 signature matrix, comparing one…

2k898Research

aipoch

Medical Research Skills

56
aipoch

consensus-clustering-analysis

Use when identifying stable sample subtypes from bulk expression matrices with ConsensusClusterPlus, including PAC-based model selection and consensus matrix/CDF visualization. NOT for…

2k898Research

aipoch

Medical Research Skills

56
aipoch

decision-tree-analysis

Use when building a decision tree model in R and generating feature importance ranking outputs. Supports classification and regression, automatic task detection, parameter validation, model…

2k898Research

aipoch

Medical Research Skills

56
aipoch

deg-screening-analysis

Use when screening differentially expressed genes from a bulk expression matrix between two user-specified groups, producing DEG tables, a volcano plot, and a clustered heatmap. Triggers…

2k898Research

aipoch

Medical Research Skills

56
aipoch

differential-expression-analysis

Use when analyzing bulk RNA-seq or microarray expression data to identify differentially expressed genes between two biological groups (case vs control), with volcano plots and heatmap…

2k898Research

aipoch

Medical Research Skills

56
aipoch

elastic-net-feature-selection

Use when selecting predictive genes or other molecular features from bulk expression matrices for binary case-vs-control classification with elastic net logistic regression, including…

2k898Research

aipoch

Medical Research Skills

56
aipoch

estimate-immune-score-analysis

Use this skill to compute ESTIMATE immune-related microenvironment scores from a bulk expression matrix, generate an ESTIMATE score heatmap, and optionally generate group-wise ESTIMATE…

2k898Research

Affitor

Affiliate Skills

53
Affitor

internal-linking-optimizer

Analyze site's internal link structure and optimize for hub-and-spoke SEO architecture. Triggers on: "optimize internal links", "internal linking", "link structure", "hub and spoke links"…

7781.4kMarketing

Data analysis skills, explained.

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What are the best Claude skills for data analysis?

Right now the top-ranked data analysis skills on Alyn are Xlsx (Anthropic), Conversion Tracking (Corey Haines), UI UX Pro Max (nextlevelbuilder). Rankings combine GitHub stars, installs, freshness and depth, and update live.

Is there a Claude skill for Excel?

Yes. Anthropic's xlsx skill creates and edits spreadsheets with formulas, and several community skills cover cleaning and analysis.

Do data skills send my data anywhere?

Skills are instructions and local scripts. Where your data goes depends on the agent you run them in.

How do I install a data analysis skill?

Run npx skills add owner/repo in your project, or copy the folder with SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills. Every skill on this page has a ready-to-copy command.

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