Analysis Workspace Analysis and Visualization
Pick the panel before the chart
Analysis Workspace is CJA's analysis surface, and questions test whether you choose the right panel before the right visualization. Panels include Freeform, Blank, Attribution, Experimentation, Journey Canvas, Fallout, Flow, Cohort, Segment Comparison, and Quick Insights. Guided panels do the modeling for you: Fallout counts defined steps in sequence, Flow shows paths between dimension items, Cohort tables track retention across periods, and Journey Canvas maps cross-channel touchpoints.
Inside a freeform table you have breakdowns, dimension and metric filters, date comparisons, row and column percentages, anomaly detection, and contribution analysis, plus the ability to apply attribution to a single column. That column-level option matters: it overrides the data view default for that view only, so two tables in one project can legitimately disagree.
Traps to recognize. Fallout and Flow default to session scope, so a question about people who abandoned needs the scope changed to Person. Date comparison compares the same range against a prior period, not against a segment. Attribution column settings on non-partitionable metrics, such as a person count, will not split credit fractionally the way revenue does. And CJA has no report suites or virtual report suites; any option referencing them belongs to Adobe Analytics.
Rule of thumb: write the business question as a sentence, then choose the panel that natively answers it; never hand-build fallout in a freeform table when the Fallout panel exists. Worked example: where do checkout users drop off becomes a Fallout panel with cart, shipping, payment, and confirmation steps, scoped to sessions and broken down by device type.