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Drill down

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

phrasal verbCommon term

In software engineering, drill down means: To move from a summary view to more detailed data, for example from yearly sales to monthly sales and then to single stores, in order to find the cause of a pattern.

In Turkish: detaya inmek, ayrıntıya inmek, kırılımlara bakmak

How it is used

Used about dashboards and analysis: you drill down into a number, by region or to the order level. Many dashboards let users click to drill down. The noun is 'drill-down', as in 'a drill-down view'.

Example sentences

  1. If you drill down by region, you'll see the drop is all in the north.

  2. Can the dashboard let managers drill down to individual stores?

Common collocations

  • drill down into
  • drill down by region
  • drill-down view
  • drill down to the detail
  • dashboardA screen that shows the most important metrics and charts about a system in one place, so engineers can see its health at a glance.
  • segmentA group of customers or users who share certain characteristics, such as country, device or buying behaviour; as a verb, to divide data into such groups.
  • filterTo keep only the rows of data that meet certain conditions, such as orders from 2024 or users in Turkey, and leave out the rest.
  • granularityThe level of detail in data, meaning what one row represents, for example one row per order, per customer per day or per store per month.

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