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by superjared 5377 days ago
The thing about analytics is that it's BIG data. A single user event can cascade into multiple datapoints that you either have to keep normalized (like in the SQL example) or denormalize into something more manageable. The latter of which is really the only way to handle TBs of data, and it's not trivial. It's a fun job, but it's full time.