This document outlines an analytics project to investigate metric spikes for a company. It involves analyzing operational data to identify areas for improvement and provide insights to other departments. The approach includes understanding the data and problem, importing data into a MySQL database, writing and executing queries to answer questions, and attaching the code. Questions focus on calculating metrics like throughput, language usage, duplicates, and engagement over time. The goals are to predict growth/decline and help other teams understand the data.