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Big Data: And the hype played on
MARTYN RICHARD JONES In spite of the best-efforts of Hadoop evangelists, consulting houses, and IT infrastructure and service vendors, Big Data – hailed as the greatest thing since the dawn of greatest...
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12 Amazing Big Data Success Stories for 2016
If this piece tickles your fancy, then please consider joining The Big Data Contrarians on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8338976 Every year I ask myself the same question. Will there be...
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Stories from the Data Warehousing front-line
NB THIS IS FICTION All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Data warehousing, what is she like? Although the...
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In the beginning was the Big Data Plan
In the beginning was the Big Iron, the Big Data, and the Big Data Plan. And then came the Big Data Assumptions. And the Big Data Assumptions were without form. And the Big Data Plan was without...
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How Hadoop Revolutionised IT
This is the story of how the amazing Hadoop ecosphere revolutionised IT. If you enjoy it then consider joining The Big Data Contrarians. Before the advent of Hadoop and its ecosphere, the IT was a...
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Testing the Data Warehouse
Martyn Richard Jones Dusseldorf, August 2006 Data Warehousing provides possibly one of the best opportunities for IT organizations to deliver a valuable business solution in order to address a set of...
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Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 1
Why buy when you can get it for free? Here is the first fantastic delivery of an amazing and fabulous selection of free and widely available business analytics learning content, which has been...
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Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 2
Why buy when you can get it for free? Back at you! Here is the second fantastic delivery of an amazing and fabulous selection of free and widely available business analytics learning content, which has...
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Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 3
Why buy when you can get it for free? Back at you! Here is the third fantastic delivery of an amazing and fabulous selection of free and widely available business analytics learning content, which has...
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Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 4
Why buy when you can get it for free? Back at you! Here is the fourth fantastic delivery of an amazing and fabulous selection of free and widely available business analytics learning content, which has...
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Too much information
Martyn Richard Jones I have questions about data. Most of us who have more than a cursory knowledge of the English language have heard of the phrase ‘too much information’. We know what it means, even...
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Consider this: Big Data Inertia
“Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway...
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Big Data: And it’s all gone quiet over there!
Big Data is all pervasive, all seeing and all knowing. Everyone is doing Big Data, and if they aren’t then they will. It’s inevitable. Big Data will revolutionise the worlds of data, decision making...
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Getting business value from data? Commercial analytics is where it’s at
Martyn Richard Jones Overview I first became involved in commercial analytics in the eighties. First, through my involvement in customer segmentation and data visualisation, principally in banking but...
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Big Data on the Roof of the World
Once upon a time, there was a mountain known as Peak 15. Very little was known about it. Then in 1852, surveyors found it was the highest in the world, and they named it Everest. As with other...
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Seven Magnificent Big Data Success Stories
Martyn Richard Jones Lora del Rio, 31st August 2016 Big data has arrived. Big Data is here for keeps. Big Data is the future. Despite some of the malicious, mendacious and malodorous words of...
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Amazing Uses of Big Data at ISIS
Martyn Richard Jones Langley, 2nd September 2016 Few outside of the big intelligence agencies of the USA, Russia and Andorra know this, but a big part of the success of Operational Excellence at ISIS...
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Data on the Edge of Time and Place
Big Data on the Edge This is all about data governance, time-and-place utility and striving to do the right, things right, first time and every time. First up. Having been responsible for R&D in...
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Big Data Predictions for 2017
Big Data Predictions for 2017 Prologue You want Big Data predictions for 2017? You’ve got ’em! These are my Big Data, Data Warehousing and Analytics extrapolations for 2017. They are based on...
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What Every CEO Needs to Know About Big Data
Martyn Richard Jones New York City, 18th January 2017 Blue sky for professional data architecture and management Scope I’ll make this short, sweetish and to the point. These are the arguments that CEOs...
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