The Role of Semantic Models in Modern Business Intelligence
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.Abstract
With the modern BI stack, many people are able to access shared warehouse data, but each dashboard willtypically interpret the same business metric differently. Semantic models have been suggested as the solution, represented as a layer of entities, joins, dimensions and metrics
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