Comment by jerf

I've always preferred to think of normalization as more about "removing redundancy" than in the frame it is normally presented. Or, to put it another way, rather than "normalizing" which has as a benefit "removing redundancy", raise the removing of redundancy up to the primary goal which has as a side benefit "normalization".

A nice thing about that point of view is that it fits with your point; redundancy is redundancy whether you look at it with a column-based view or a row-based view.