About This Event
This highly participative workshop provides approaches for many difficult data modeling situations, as well as techniques for improving communication between data modelers and subject matter experts. Take your data modelling skills to the next level.
Three main themes will be explored:
- The technical side of data modelling – getting better at modelling difficult, complex situations
- Developing and using data models in new ways, and in conjunction with other techniques
- The human side of data modelling – improving processes and communication skills
Topics will be covered with a discussion of the issue, a review of techniques, guidelines and examples, a brief workshop exercise, and a group solution and debriefing. The emphasis is on maximizing the delivery of content while keeping everyone engaged – the workshop has recently been extensively redesigned to focus on the topics that data modelling professionals have continually rated as the most concrete and useful.
Learning objectives
- Level-setting on terms, concepts, conventions, and structures
- Interesting structures –  generalisation and recursion
- Preparing and delivering a data model review presentation
- Modelling time, history, and time-dependent business rules
- Modelling rules on relationships and associations
- Working with higher-level models
- Bridging the “E-R vs. Dimensional” divide – the world’s shortest course on dimensional modelling.
