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title: Next steps | Tiger Data Docs
description: Where to go after getting started with Tiger Data
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Now that you’ve set up Tiger Data, here’s where to go next based on your goals.

## Learn the fundamentals

[Your first hypertable](/docs/build/how-to/your-first-hypertable/index.md)

[Understand the core building block of time-series data](/docs/build/how-to/your-first-hypertable/index.md)

[Understanding chunks](/docs/learn/chunks/understanding-chunks/index.md)

[Learn how TimescaleDB partitions data for performance](/docs/learn/chunks/understanding-chunks/index.md)

[Basic compression](/docs/build/how-to/basic-compression/index.md)

[Reduce storage costs while maintaining query performance](/docs/build/how-to/basic-compression/index.md)

## Build something

[Time-series operations](/docs/learn/hypertables/understand-hypertables/index.md)

[Create hypertables, time buckets, and efficient queries](/docs/learn/hypertables/understand-hypertables/index.md)

[Continuous aggregates](/docs/build/continuous-aggregates/create-a-continuous-aggregate/index.md)

[Automatically maintain pre-computed aggregations](/docs/build/continuous-aggregates/create-a-continuous-aggregate/index.md)

[Columnar storage](/docs/build/columnar-storage/setup-hypercore/index.md)

[Optimize storage with Hypercore and compression](/docs/build/columnar-storage/setup-hypercore/index.md)

## Explore examples

[IoT dashboard](/docs/build/examples/simulate-iot-sensor-data/index.md)

[Build an IoT monitoring solution](/docs/build/examples/simulate-iot-sensor-data/index.md)

[Financial data](/docs/build/examples/analyze-financial-tick-data/index.md)

[Analyze financial tick data](/docs/build/examples/analyze-financial-tick-data/index.md)

[Transport analytics](/docs/build/examples/analyze-transport-data/index.md)

[Process transportation data at scale](/docs/build/examples/analyze-transport-data/index.md)