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A layered approach to data meaning and measurement w/ Nick Handel

Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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What Is the Metric Flow?

Metric flow is an attempt to solve denormalization. It can be defined on top of rod data sets or de normalized tables, but you basically get more out of it if you have nice, clean data and it's not partially aggregated already. What metric flow does is it takes the smatic information, it takes the request from metric and then it compiles that into a sequel query. And what it ends of returning to you is, you know, either a sequel query or the result of that sequel query.

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