Developers and companies use time-series data every day whether they know it or not. Whether you're capturing data from IoT sensors, analyzing past market performance, monitoring cloud or application infrastructure, or running an on-demand food delivery app, time-series data helps your business run. But what exactly is time-series data and how is it useful?
This post seeks to provide answers to those questions and illustrate the power of time-series data in action by looking at a real-world scenario using a public dataset from the New York Taxi & Limousine Commission. First, let’s dive into a few basic concepts to lay the foundation for the queries we’ll write and analyze in the “Let’s Code” section.