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Entity and Event seems like Dimension and Fact tables as popularized by Kimball and Ross?

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Yes, these concepts are interchangeable. The entity is a logical model of a business object that one or more dimension tables can represent.

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This is an excellent overview of the key components of data modeling and functional data engineering, which will tie into data products/data contracts more and more, and the fundamental challenges with handling changes and late arrivals compiled into DE patterns.

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