4th September 2009, 1 min read

Changing your perspective: horizontal, vertical and hybrid data models

2 thoughts on “Changing your perspective: horizontal, vertical and hybrid data models”

1. Stephen Downes says:
   September 4, 2009 at 10:10 am

   I tried rotating my data model and ended up in dimension n….

2. jeremy says:
   September 4, 2009 at 2:08 pm

   I agree; thinking about things vertically, rather than horizontally, can be quite interesting.

   Did some work on this idea, for information retrieval. Came up with a very simple, yet effective, approach, simply by thinking vertically:

   http://www.fxpal.com/publications/FXPAL-PR-08-467.pdf