Summary

You have reached the end of this course. By now you should:

• Understand the role of the Ed-Fi Platform in an analytics data stack
• Understand the need for a separate cloud data warehouse
• Understand the importance of dimensional modeling when creating datasets for use in analytics

In the proceeding course, you will run code that brings the star schemas you saw in the previous section to life.

Further Reading

We strongly encourage you to read the material linked below. This will allow you to become intimately familiar with the best practices that you will see brought to life in the code.

• Star Schema the Complete Reference by Christopher Adamson
• The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling by Ralph Kimball