Practicing developing a data warehouse
Now we are set and ready to build our first data warehouse. We will proceed with the help of two scenarios. Each scenario will have different learning purposes.
In the first scenario, we are going to focus on how to use the tools. After understanding the tools, in the second scenario, we will focus on the principles. Principles here mean that even though we know how to use the tools, there are many possibilities for using them. If we are talking about principles, there is no right or wrong answer. What we can do is to learn from common patterns and a number of theories.
We will use the San Francisco bike-sharing dataset. The dataset relates to a bike-sharing company. The company records the trip data of its members. Each bike trip contains information about the stations, and lastly, each station is located in certain regions. This dataset is very simple compared to a real-world data warehouse, but for practice purposes, this is a good...