Roles of multidimensionality and granularity in warehousing Australian resources data

Granularity of data modeled in multidimensional data structures is an important factor for a data warehouse. Grain sizes and number of dimensions participating in the model are critical in ascertaining the quality of analytical queries that are run on such data warehouses. In this paper, exploratio...

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Main Authors: Rudra, Amit, Nimmagadda, Shastri
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE 2005
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33681
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description Granularity of data modeled in multidimensional data structures is an important factor for a data warehouse. Grain sizes and number of dimensions participating in the model are critical in ascertaining the quality of analytical queries that are run on such data warehouses. In this paper, exploration and production data of Australian resources industry, pertinent to oil and gas, over the past five decades have been examined for multidimensionality and grain size. This research shows how using an ER approach combined with multidimensional data modeling helps in considerable reduction in the size of the data warehouse, making it more effective and efficient.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-336812020-10-05T01:06:52Z Roles of multidimensionality and granularity in warehousing Australian resources data Rudra, Amit Nimmagadda, Shastri grain size data modeling data warehouse warehousing ER granularity resources data Australia resources multidimensionality and granularity Australia Granularity of data modeled in multidimensional data structures is an important factor for a data warehouse. Grain sizes and number of dimensions participating in the model are critical in ascertaining the quality of analytical queries that are run on such data warehouses. In this paper, exploration and production data of Australian resources industry, pertinent to oil and gas, over the past five decades have been examined for multidimensionality and grain size. This research shows how using an ER approach combined with multidimensional data modeling helps in considerable reduction in the size of the data warehouse, making it more effective and efficient. 2005 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33681 IEEE fulltext
spellingShingle grain size
data modeling
data warehouse
warehousing
ER
granularity
resources data
Australia resources
multidimensionality and granularity
Australia
Rudra, Amit
Nimmagadda, Shastri
Roles of multidimensionality and granularity in warehousing Australian resources data
title Roles of multidimensionality and granularity in warehousing Australian resources data
title_full Roles of multidimensionality and granularity in warehousing Australian resources data
title_fullStr Roles of multidimensionality and granularity in warehousing Australian resources data
title_full_unstemmed Roles of multidimensionality and granularity in warehousing Australian resources data
title_short Roles of multidimensionality and granularity in warehousing Australian resources data
title_sort roles of multidimensionality and granularity in warehousing australian resources data
topic grain size
data modeling
data warehouse
warehousing
ER
granularity
resources data
Australia resources
multidimensionality and granularity
Australia
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33681