Introducing technology and hardware innovations

Today's technology requires trade-off. In the present-day scenario, five factors are considered in analyzing data—the depth of data, its broadness, whether or not it is in real time, the simplicity of the data, and the retrieval speed of data. This section explains these factors and the innovations that came on the hardware side.

How it works…

Let us walk through different concepts that are very important in analyzing data.

Depth of data

Depth of data includes the granularity of data. This factor mainly depends on how deep we are diving into analyzing the data. For example, when a global head queries the data, it will hit on the entire set of data. Let us say a regional manager of a particular country is querying the data; in this case, only a set of data will be hit. The analysis made is the same, but the amount of data being queried differs. Once the query is obtained, there will be situations where data has to be sliced and...