Looks like HN ate the exclamation mark, using the slug url title would've been better. Personally, I was first taught about the basics of data warehousing and

Looks like HN ate the exclamation mark, using the slug url title would've been better. Personally, I was first taught about the basics of data warehousing and the needs of common OLAP workflows before ever touching a cube. Cubes were just another way of accessing and slicing the same data, but far from the only way. This has only become more apparent as more and more analytics isn't relying on the traditional RDBMS-based data warehouse structure in favour of more exotic sources.