Insert <actor> and as role (show) as keyword IPTCs into actor images
Hi Being playing with image and face recognition in picasa, and so thought it'd be interesting to "face match' the images that are downloaded. Then I thought this could be extended to displaying within MC... So first off I parsed (hackily) the

Point in time reporting using ad hoc BI capability
Hi There Is there a BI tool that can handle the following two reporting scenarios? Please note scenarios to be preferably supported through ad hoc reports that user can build on the fly? Also, if you know how to achieve this functionality in a particular

Supplier Dimension to include Customers & Employees
We are in the process of finalising Dimensions /Facts to be used in Datawarehouse. Already finalised separate dimensions (eg Customer,Supplier,Employee) to handle requirements of Sales,Purchace and Human resourses. During designing Accounts Payable Fact

Lets Play Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Outcast
Welcome to one of my newest games and my first ever Lets Play! I'm not very good at this game, and the game won't let me stop and open another window in order to save the screen shot without closing it. This is going to be a long Lets Play. Moving

attributes depending on more than 1 dimension (2 dimensions)
suppose you have - a discount code attribute - a status attribute which depend on the combination of the dimension customer & the dimension product. You want to be able to relate these attributes to a fact table invoice details. What are the

Snowflaking Dimensions
I've got two related questions. Question 1: Building an insurance data warehouse, you have a DimPolicy table (for the insurance policy) and a FactPolicyTransaction table (for the transactions on that policy). There is an insurance agent that is

Multi-valued dimension with distinct attributes
In the health care data analysis DW, the grain of one of my fact tables is the episode of care. How can I include procedure codes performed on an episode ? if I create a multi-valued dimension for it and used bridge tables to model this, it will end up

Question on symmetry in Star schema
Hi I read Kimball's Data warehouse toolkit and I came across a point that one of the advantages of having star schema is - BI / reporting tools in the market can leverage the symmetrical nature of the star schema. From what I know and I could

COby Kyros MID 7005-4g
Something you may or may not know. The unit will not charge using USB connection, but if you are out of battery. Just connect the included USB cable to any device that has a open USB port. The tablet will run off the USB and not use any battery power. I

Trailer url's won't play in XBMC because they don't start with "http://"
I noticed recently that some of my trailers weren't playing. I checked the nfo's that media companion had made and there were url's, but the ones that wouldn't play didn't start with "http://" Here's an example of a nfo scraped with Media

use of degenerate dimension to physically join two logically related fact tables
I am looking for a sanity check on a design decision. Here is the scenario: The business domain is insurance, specifically life and annuity. I have two fact tables - factPolicyTransaction and factCommissionTransaction. Policy transactions,

Linking or Merging Similar dimensions from Different Source Systems
We've got a situation with the DW we're building where we have 2 seperate systems that we are wanting to bring the data together for cross analysis 1) The first system is the main operational system ie a contact management application that records

Time dimension confusion
Hi, first post here so I hope someone can advise on this. I'm looking to remodel time dimensions to somehow combine monthly 'periods' and weekly 'periods'. The aim being similar to a fiscal calendar where each week is allocated into a month period (e.g.

Dimension loading sources
Hi all, It's about datawarehouse dimension loading : should i load dimension from a master data management referential or from the truth of my business application. In the first case, dimension will be cleaner than in the second case but it will not

Remedy for a Bridge Table?
Hi folks, I'm looking to get rid of my bridge table. (yes I know why whould I want to do that?) Reason being that I am using Mondrian and as far as I can tell bridge tables don't fit. My Situation: I have many facts and many Participants each