Turning Data into Insights

Abstract

Part III of this book addressed the execution of cloud service benchmarks. As such, it was also concerned with the collection of resulting benchmarking data, which to some degree co-occurs with benchmark execution. We now shift our focus on what to do with the resulting data. In this chapter, we start by introducing the general process for gaining insights from benchmarking data through preprocessing and analysis. We differentiate two fundamental approaches of data analysis, which depend on the benchmark’s original motivation. We end this chapter by providing an overview and discussion of different types of data analysis tools.