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datadrivenangel 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Database Design for Google Calendar: A Tutorial

I expect a skilled data scientist to be able to articulate the complexities of the real world in relational data. Otherwise, how the hell will they be able to infer the real world from relational data?

nerdponx 5 months ago [–]

That's fair. That's the ad-hoc data engineering I was talking about.

I interpreted the question to be asking about "warehousing" moreso than just "laying out data", but I think I might have read too far into it.

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