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title: How to Run a Playground Evaluation
description: Use the Statsig Warehouse Native playground to evaluate metric and experiment configurations with sample data before committing to production pipelines.
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last_updated: 2025-09-18
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# How to Run a Playground Evaluation

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> **Info:**
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> Statsig recommends playground evaluations only for Enterprise-tier customers.

A Playground Evaluation is a Statsig-hosted project with sample, near-real-time data sources that you use to set up experiments, analyze metrics, and explore Statsig Warehouse Native. Use it to evaluate the product when privacy or data-security requirements make testing on your own production data slow.

The read-only [Demo Project](https://console.statsig.com/whn_demo) doesn't cover the full warehouse native experience, so contact support to request a Playground Evaluation project. You're an admin on the project and can add teammates to explore it together.

## Playground projects

Playground projects come with some boilerplate connections hooked up:

- A real-time event streaming metric source
- A daily user-level metric source
- An assignment source with a handful of experiments
- A handful of pre-loaded metrics and experiments

> **Note:**
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> Playground projects don't come with any assign-and-analyze experiments, so you can't use some features that require SDK usage (e.g. Stratified Sampling). You can use a normal demo project with an SDK on a local script to generate data for those use cases.

## Evaluation

Follow steps 2 and later from the [quick start](https://docs.statsig.com/statsig-warehouse-native/guides/quick-start) guide, starting with the tables available to the playground project. These steps give you a sense of what running experiments and managing metrics in Statsig involves.

After completing those steps, refer to the [POC guide](https://docs.statsig.com/statsig-warehouse-native/guides/running_a_poc) and simulate the steps relevant to your evaluation. Exploring the Pulse UI together has been useful for teams. The Statsig team welcomes any questions or feedback.