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Apr 22, 2023Liked by David Jayatillake

Hey David, good stuff

You have a great series of articles about the semantic layer; I'm learning a lot from you.

i have one question, tho.

what you meant with

> I hope we are in agreement that things like OLAP cubes in their original implementations (like Microsoft SSAS) aren’t a good idea going forwards

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I really like to play around with the different implementations so far. But it is still a lot of playing around. I have a bit of a LookML past with all the pros/cons (you covered them well).

From the integrated ones I enjoy the Lightdash one most - it's already where I usualy prepare the data (dbt), their approach makes more sense than the dbt one (at least for me). And like you, I am hoping there will be more people asking for charts and dashboards as code.

In two new projects I am starting to work with Cube in small scale scenario and so far I really like to work with it. But I am still scratching the surface.

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Apr 5, 2023Liked by David Jayatillake

This is helpful, David. The semantics layer is in flux and this article helped me understand what’s going on at the moment

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Apr 5, 2023Liked by David Jayatillake

GoodData is a BI tool with an open semantic layer - best of both worlds!?

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