Wow has is been an amazing event with many amazing people from around the globe. I am VERY glad that I took the time and came to St Albans for this inaugural event.
As with Day 1, there is just too much great information for me to adequately cover it in a blog post (or 10!), so I will give you some highlights and lots of pictures.
The good news is that sometime in the next few months you will be able to purchase access to a video of the entire event on LearnDataVault (then you will be really bummed about not having come in person). Dan and Sanjay figure with their schedules it will take a few months to produce a top quality video. The good news is we had professional videographers for all three days and they filmed every keynote and every talk.
I will let you know when the video is ready.
Dan Does a Deep Dive on Data Vault 2.0
Due to popular demand, Dan actually changed the agenda and made the first session of Day 2 a detailed look at some of the more important aspects of Data Vault 2.0. This is material that he has not really written much about and is only available otherwise in his DV 2.0 bootcamp class.
Here are some of the highlights (again to see even more details check #WWDVC on twitter).
Opposing goals between DW storage and Mart presentation have led to many failed DW/BI projects.
BTW – Dan would like to see us stop calling the reporting side “Data Marts” and start calling them “Information Marts”. To be agile we have to stop mixing the raw data storage (EDW) with the reporting that has applied business rules.
Dan went on a bit of a rant about the need to measure things.
DV 2.0 Methodology helps us be more precise to be more successful
Then we had a discussion about DV 2.0 architecture and methodology and how it supports and fits into the knowledge pyramid.
Dan introduces us to DV 2.0 and the Knowledge Pyramid
The DV 2.0 Architecture
The some discussion about DV 2.0 agility backed up by a real user case study.
A DV success at Qsuper
It sure was great to see real numbers on a DV 2.0 success story!
So how did they do it? Dan then showed us his recommended approach to requirements gathering that helps the process become more agile.
DV 2.0 approach to getting better requirements faster
Then finally another rant about how to get better performance from our systems.
Dan’s Rules of Performance
Roelant Vos (Analytics8) talks about DV Automation
Characteristics of ETL for Data Vault
Roelant Vos discusses generating Data Vault ETL from meta data
Roelant uses Lego as a great analogy for the patterns in Data Vault and why it is possible to auto-create ETL code.
Model driven ETL generation is possible
What is needed to support generation of ETL
With all this in mind, Roelant has built a nice little kit to actually generate DV ETL code for his clients. Nice job! You can follow Roelant on twitter here.
Doug Needham (ClearMeasure) blows our minds with Data Vault Math.
There were a ton of tweets about this session. Doug has done some incredibly innovative work on using mathematics to determine the quality/completeness of a data vault model and some slick ways to validate that it has been loaded correctly. Lots of talk about graph theory and calculating edges ensued.
Doug blows our minds with math
Research on how to determine the driving key for a Link
More calculations from Doug – vector math!
This is the first time I have met Doug, a former marine corp DBA. We have found we have a lot of experiences and thoughts in common, including a common client! He even grew up in Texas in the town where I now live!
In this session Doug famously said “If you do not know what a hypothesis, control group or A/B test is, you are NOT a data scientist.”
One of the great things about these event is the people you meet. I am glad to have met Doug.
Using Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler for DV
After a much needed brain break from Doug’s talk and some networking time, I got to take the floor again to show my favorite FREE data modeling tool. I did my usual top 10 type talk but with a slant towards how I leverage all those features to support a data vault modeling project.
Data Vault Diversity: The former Marine mathematician and the long haired environmentalist
There were lots of good questions and interaction and lots of interest in how I have built virtual data marts on top of data vault warehouses.
Starting my SDDM intro talk
And that was it for Day 2. We all took a break then had a happy hour and dinner (with demo) sponsored by AnalytixDS. Good food and good fun!
Data Vault geeks from around the world in snowy St Albans, Vermont
More to come on Day 3!
Kent
The Data Warrior 
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