My 3 [+1] jokers with templates for building a powerful analytical semantic layer
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TL;DR:
My 3 straightforward and one hidden Joker are:
- Joker #1: Pattern-Driven Repository Structure 🗂️
- Joker #2: Organized Code 👩🏻💻
- Joker #3: (Non-) Embedded Documentation 📜
- [🃏 Hidden Joker: Refinement Loop 🃏]
Semantic — the study of linguistic meaning
According to Wikipedia, the term semantic, which is the study of linguistic meaning, examines what meaning is.
Or per se — how words get their meaning and how the meaning of a complex expression depends on its parts [1].
Although the term semantic is straightforwardly explained, I honestly had to dwell for a while on the part “the meaning of a complex expression depends on its parts”, because I wanted to re-use it to explain the semantic layer in analytics.
After rereading it, my explanation goes as follows:
Similar to semantics in the linguistic context, the semantic layer in analytics is about making data…