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title: "Introducing Parent Metrics"
slug: 2024-09-18-introducing-parent-metrics
date: 2024-09-18
type: new
tags: ["library"]
url: https://invertbio.com/changelog/2024-09-18-introducing-parent-metrics
---

# Introducing Parent Metrics

Data can be messy! It may have differing names or even differing units, especially when coming from different sources.

We've introduced a way to simplify your metric library through **Parent Metrics**. Parent metrics allow you to combine data across existing metrics and even from formulas into a unified metric concept.

Metrics can now be assigned to a parent metric in the library, and the parent metric can be used throughout Invert.

- Scroll a shorter, more meaningful list of metrics
- Combine formulas and metrics seamlessly for analysis
- Improve traceability back to the data source and original name