Exploring a possible solution

Now that we have seen the problems caused by disorganised data at scale, let’s explore how sorting can help address them. At its core, sorting is the process of arranging items in a specific order according to a defined rule or priority. In daily life, this could mean alphabetising documents, arranging numbers from smallest to largest, or organising books on a shelf by genre or size. 

Let’s understand how sorting can address the problems we identified earlier, especially when dealing with large-scale data.