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In ] to '''drill down''' means to move from one place to another, ] to detailed ] by focusing in on something. In a ]-environment, "drilling-down" may involve ]ing on some representation in order to reveal more detail.<ref>
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To drill down through a series of notebooks, for example, on a desktop means to move through the hierarchy of folders (from the top downwards) to find a specific file or to click through drop-down menus in a GUI. Clicking on an item moves you to a level of greater detail. When an online user accesses more and more pages of the website, they may delve deeper into the content of the site. As a web-surfer goes further into a website, they go deeper into the back pages and thus deeper into data. (Of course, they could also begin&mdash;for example via an external search engine&mdash;at a detailed view, and drill '''up''' to the front page of the site.)

Drilling down through a ] involves accessing information by starting with a general category and moving through the hierarchy: from category to file/table to record to field. When one drills down, one performs ''de facto'' data analysis on a parent attribute. Drilling down provides a method of exploring multidimensional data by moving from one level of detail to the next. Drill-down levels depend on the ].

The field of ] uses the term "Drill Down" to explain certain technical aspects of ] and ].{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}}

For an alternative data-extraction metaphor, see ].

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