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Introducing the activity schema: data modeling with a single table

Introducing the activity schema: data modeling with a single table

Daniel Poppy

on Oct 21, 2024

Ahmed will present a new data modeling approach called the activity schema. It can answer any data question using a single time series table (only 11 columns and no JSON).

Instead of facts and dimensions, data is modeled as a customer doing an activity over time. This approach works for any business data used for BI.

Published on: Oct 29, 2021

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