Data analytics solution building blocks

Let's go step by step here to understand the different solution building blocks required to build a data analytics solution.

Data sources

I know this book is about IoT, and we mentioned earlier that IoT is one of the greatest data sources for any business organization, but based on the analytics questions you have to hand, you might need some other data sources to do a proper analysis and answer those business data analytics questions.

For example, you might want data from an external data source such as weather data or an IoT device's metadata, as the data coming from IoT devices is usually raw and small due to bandwidth and power limitations; hence, you can enrich raw data in the cloud by using another IoT device data repository, such as IoT device metadata or IoT device registry data.

To conclude, you might require more data sources besides data coming from IoT devices, so identifying those data sources should be the...