“note: normalised and de-normalised data have different meanings to structured relational data (SQL) than general scientific usage, but are handy concepts
consider:
- normalised
- “rationalised: collapsed to minimal, relational graph”
- de-normalised
- “plurally enumerated: enumeration of all of the paths through the graph”
Simplifying: normalised data is contextually de-duplicated; de-normalised data “double counts”