Data Cubes Research Article

The goal of the project was to research a current topic in Data Analytics that was not covered extensively in class and provide a brief summary of research, how this topic relates to other subjects covered in class, and an example of how it has this tool has been applied in practice. I learned how data cubes work and how they can take a 2-D data store (rows and columns) and analyze it in much higher dimensions. This expands upon the information we learned about relational databases along with providing a solution to obtaining better association mining. As well, I learned about the ‘roll up’ and ‘drill down’ features available to cubes because of their allowance for hierarchical relationships. In all, it really changed my thinking of how dimensions relate to databases, especially how rows and columns can not only limit one’s data but as well, there perspective. http://community.mis.temple.edu/cbreece/articles/