Aggregation
Analytics of information often require a reduction of data volume, computing certain statistics of the data involved. Those operations are called aggregations, which turn a collection of objects into a singleton value, representing the original information that has been combined in one form or another.
Because all aggregates are conceptually the same, we start by looking at the general-purpose Aggregate operator and discuss more specific aggregation operators later.
Aggregate
The Aggregate operator takes a sequence of elements of type T and turns them into a single value of another type A, which stands for accumulated or aggregated depending on your choice of vocab. But how can we transform any number of elements of type T into a ...
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