Adding dlthub Google Analytics 4 dbt package.

[zem360]

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The Google Analytics 4 dbt package for analysis of events data. This versatile package processes GA4 events data across various databases.

Link to your package's repository: https://github.com/dlt-hub/dbt_ga4

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• The package uses ref or source, instead of hard-coding table references.

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• provide a mechanism (such as variables) to customise the location of source tables.
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[joellabes]

@zem360 thanks for this! Heads up that variables are globally scoped, so can you rename your schema_name, paid_sources, extra_event_params etc to be a bit more namespaced to this specific package? Otherwise you're likely to hit collisions with people's existing vars in their own project.

[zem360]

Hey @joellabes ,
Thanks for spotting this. We have prefixed the mentioned variables with the package name ga4_data which should circumvent collisions with existing variables.

[joellabes]

lgtm! thanks and welcome 🎉