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Turning Spreadsheets into Corporate Data

You're reading from   Turning Spreadsheets into Corporate Data Transform your spreadsheets into credible and reliable information

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781634622288
Length 140 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bill Inmon Bill Inmon
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER
2. 1: Brief History of Spreadsheets 3. 2: Spreadsheet Paradox 4. 3: Spreadsheet Varieties 5. 4: The PDF Spreadsheet 6. 5: The Basics of Spreadsheet Formatting 7. 6: Spreadsheet Disambiguation 8. 7: The Intermediate Database 9. 8: The ssdef Database 10. 9: The Corporate Database 11. 10: The Mnemonic Dictionary 12. 11: Political Considerations Within the Organization 13. 12: Data Modeling and the Spreadsheet Environment 14. 13: Case Study
15. Glossary
16. Index

In Summary

The mnemonic dictionary is of particular value to the analyst community. The mnemonic dictionary is a natural starting point to finding data that is stored on spreadsheets.

In many ways, the mnemonic dictionary is a natural extension of the corporate data dictionary. The corporate data dictionary applies to all sorts of data in the corporation, while the mnemonic dictionary applies only to spreadsheet data. Nevertheless, the mnemonic dictionary plays a complementary role to the corporate data dictionary.

The mnemonic dictionary holds metadata as does the corporate data dictionary. The difference is that the metadata found in the mnemonic dictionary comes from spreadsheets, whereas the metadata found in the corporate data dictionary comes from sources other than spreadsheets. However, both the mnemonic dictionary and the corporate data dictionary hold metadata.

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