calculate sparsity in the cube

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Moh
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calculate sparsity in the cube

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Good morning Gentleman,I am looking for solution to calculate sparsity and density of the cube.I have gone through IBM link and unable to understand it.Do you know any other simple solutions.
http://ibm.co/1TQyy3W
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Re: calculate sparsity in the cube

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Density = Number of populated leaf cells / Number of possible leaf cells
Sparsity = 1 - Density

What is not to understand?

Obviously there's much more to optimal ordering of dimensions than that. But in essence calculating density for a particular dimension or for the cube as a whole is just the simple calculation above.
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Re: calculate sparsity in the cube

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thank you.I was confused about the calculation mentioned in the IBM document
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Re: calculate sparsity in the cube

Post by ByronB »

Hi Moh

I would recommend you to have a look at this post :

http://cubewise.com/blog/optimising-dim ... order-cube

It details how to calculate the density of a dimension in a cube

Cheers,
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