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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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hierarchy

/ˈhaɪ.ər.ɑːr.ki/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The official rollup of the org, redrawn each reorg, never matching the one Finance is actually using.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. An ordered parent-child structure within a dimension — such as date or organization — that supports rollup and drill-down across levels.

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See also

additive measureA number the dashboard sums across every dimension, including the two where summing it means nothing.
dimension tableWhere the company keeps every adjective it has ever applied to a customer, none of them governed.
taxonomyA tree of categories the steering committee approved in March and routed around by April.