Analytics for the Internet of Things (IoT)

Hierarchy of Questions example

For this simple example, let's assume the audience is a government water use planning group for the State of Colorado. The group wants to understand how many weather stations are reporting precipitation information and a sense of how well the information is being captured. The following steps show how this can be made into a question tree:

• Step 1: List out questions the audience wants to ask of the analytics:
  • Did the number of stations reporting precipitation change from last month?
  • How many stations in total have sent precipitation numbers?
  • Where are the stations located?
  • How many have reported a significant rainfall?
  • Is there anything weird in the daily sums for each station that might indicate a problem? ...