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by dzamo_norton 1246 days ago
Normally a question like "I need last quarters sales aggregated by region stat" would be trivially answered with a pivot table or OLAP cube built from a general purpose data warehouse. But there are also ad hoc reporting requirements that call for non trivial coding by a data analyst, e.g. "We think there's something fishy going on with the stock in warehouse B. Can you take this list of serial numbers and overlay their dispatch timestamps with the staff shift schedule, then ... etc."