I’m curious to know where people value Data Aggregation. I’m truly curious, if you don’t mind letting me know how important this really is to you personally with respect to your work environment, and if you have to work directly with data agg in your line of work.
Really interested to hear about your feedback.
If you persist data (e.g. store it in a database) chances are that the data will be used by managers, statisticians, stake holders etc. to analyze the workings of their software-supported undertaking to make executive decisions. This analysis can only take place by methods of aggregation. There’s no one in the world who can look at a million rows of raw data and glean insight. The data has to be summed, averaged, standard deviated etc. to make any sense to a human being.
A few examples of areas where data aggregation is important:
lol. Take your pick!