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What is Event Storming?

February 8, 2020

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by: Renee Miller

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Categories: Customer Service, Data, Data Integration, Data Modeling, Data Science, Data Visualization

Event Storming is the creation of Alberto Brandolini, a lightweight but powerful workshop approach for software development and domain-driven design. Using sticky notes, experts like software developers and product designers work together at an accelerated pace to focus, rethink, reframe, and bounce ideas off each other. Event Storming is a methodology meant to: Be quick, [...]

Got Technology, Need Data? Here’s Where to Get It…For Free

November 30, 2016

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by: Kathryn Watson

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Categories: Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Integration, Data Visualization, General, Tips

Got Technology, Need Data? Here’s Where to Get It…For Free

The Data Challenge Have you ever wanted to assess or explore a new BI, analytics, data visualization, data science, etc. technology, but struggled to find a data set to use for your assessment and exploration activities? Have you grown tired of analyzing the “typical” datasets–think census, stock market, and employment and inflation rate data–known to be publicly available? […]

Derived Effective Dating

February 6, 2015

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by: Kathryn Watson

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Categories: Data Integration, Tips

In my previous post, I discussed the transition from a Type 1 to a Type 2 Dimension structure after initial implementation. Today we’ll maintain our focus on Type 2 Dimensions and highlight derived effective dating and its timestamping implications. Why Effective Date? Within Type 2 Dimensions, it is essential that each record be effective dated […]

What’s Your (Dimension) Type?

December 16, 2014

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by: Kathryn Watson

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Categories: Data Integration, Data Modeling, Tips

In the data warehousing world, much attention has been paid to detailing the different dimension types and the design selection criteria for each. A related data warehousing design conundrum has garnered little fanfare, however—a post go-live transition from one dimension type to another. In today’s post, we will focus on the transition from a Type […]