Labels:text | screenshot OCR: Denver Profit Los Angeles Total Exp San Francisco @Margin West COGS Sales _ _ Camera STTV Audio Margin | Camera STV Audio Ap Mar ‘Maï Feb Jan Jan sans Margin Attual Budget Variantes | Builget utal Variance FIGURE 1 You can visualize multidimensional data as a cube that you can ro- tate and view from many angles. Views can focus on one value such as Region="West", just as SQL queries limit data using a WHERE clause. Multidi- mensional databases usually store aggregated results derived from transac- tional databases. They also store or present computed dimensions such as "vari- ance." This graphic is courtesy of Arbor Software Corp.
