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BigQuery conversational analytics adds ML.CORRELATION in preview

PreviewVerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Conversational analytics can now use ML.CORRELATION to calculate statistical correlations between a target column and one or more metric columns in a table.

Topics: SQL

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