Big Data is Bullshit – 2017
Marty Richard Jones Mountain View, 19th January 2017 “I’ve been accused of vulgarity. I say that’s bullshit.” – Mel Brooks If you enjoy this piece or find it useful then please consider joining The Big...
View ArticleData Supply Framework 3.0 – ETL Patterns
Martyn Richard Jones Mountain View, 22nd January 2015 This article is the first in a series of articles that discuss aspects of the use of architectural patterns in the Cambriano Information Supply...
View ArticlePost-truth, Fake-news and Big Data
Martyn Richard Jones Lora del Rio, 2nd February 2017 post-truth – ADJECTIVE – Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals...
View ArticleHere’s a thought… a mere data bagatelle
A field of dreams Most people who know me, at least in a professional capacity, will know that I am no unconditional supporter of Data Warehousing, never mind the more plague ridden swamps inhabited...
View ArticleData Mart in a Box: The Next Great Thing – Placeholder only
Data Mart in a Box: The Next Great Thing Please note that this is a placeholder for a piece that is currently being reviewed by an architectural and IP team. Don’t want to give away too many secrets....
View ArticleContextual Aptitude: The Next Great Thing… Again
Contextual Aptitude: The Next Great Thing… Again Martyn Jones Birmingham 15th March 2017 What is Contextual Aptitude (also known as End User Intelligence)? For starters, it’s a rubbish term for an...
View ArticleHere’s a thought… A Date with Codd
Martyn Richard Jones Carmarthen 18th March 2017 This is a second collection of snippets; ideas and occurrences that are aimed to provoke critical thought and engagement. As I stated in the first of...
View ArticleHadoop’s Revolutionary Data Warehouse
Martyn Richard Jones Baile Átha Cliath 2017 Martyn Richard Jones It’s Easter in Baile Átha Cliath, and thoughts naturally turn to purple-shrouded, sombre-shadowed and mystical aspects of bereavement,...
View ArticleBig Dummies for Data
Martyn Jones Madrid 25th January 2017 HERE’S A THOUGHT! In the past age of big iron, the only reason for not having a proliferation of duplicated databases was the prohibitively high cost of disk...
View ArticleBrand Aversion: Exhibit One
Martyn Richard Jones San Luis Obispo 16th April 2017 Taking a Pop at Traditional Data Warehousing Pitch: I recently read a report from a data visualisation company on the “Top Ten Big Data Trends for...
View ArticleData-Less Apps: Revolutionary IT
Martyn Richard Jones Dublin 9th May 2017 Weighed down with data? Inundated with information? Overstrained with knowledge? Intimidated by wisdom? Don’t despair! Relief from all of this is just be around...
View ArticleAI and Big Data: A pig’s breakfast
Martyn Richard Jones Dublin 10th May 2017 Throw AI, Big Data and Data Science into a pot, and what have you got? Yes. A pig’s breakfast, not fit for a pig. Let me explain Inevitably, some people are...
View ArticleTEAM 2.0 Total Eminence Analytical Mapper – The highest level architecture
This is the draft version of TEAM 0.1 The TEAM 2.0 version will be published in June 2017. This will by far the best and most streamlined and comprehensive analytics and (big) data framework that has...
View ArticleHow to turn internal user data into a massive liability – Zéro pièce
Martyn Richard Jones Laugharne 18th May 2017 “Our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.” ― Dylan Thomas Let me...
View ArticleBecome an Instant Big Data Rock Star with 10 Insider Tips from the Top
Martyn Richard Jones Talacharn, 28th May 2017 Folks! Here I bring you ten amazing tips from some of Big Data’s great and good. Tips that will help you become the Big Data Rock Star that you have...
View Article5 Simple Tips to Help You Survive the Big Data Bullshit Revolution
Afilonius Rex Dunny on the Wold, 1st July 2017 The 4th big data bullshit is here, and it is completely reimagining the way we conceptualise, think and reason. This amazingly and imaginary Govesque...
View ArticleHow to turn data into knowledge
Martyn Jones Zurich, Switzerland – 3rd August 2017 If anyone can turn data into knowledge then that person is me. Let me explain. I am a data architecture and management professional. For more than...
View ArticleBusiness Data Explained: The Long Read
Martyn Richard Jones, Gif sur Yvette 23rd September 2017 Hi, Friends. As always, it’s great to be able to engage with you again. I am writing to you from the splendorous, wooded and verdant French town...
View ArticleThe Bastards of Big Data: You can’t blame Putin for all of this bullshit
Martyn Richard Jones Gif sur Yvette 7th October 2017 In my life, I have never seen such a destructive and mindless movement in data architecture and management as that which has been nurtured, groomed...
View ArticleWhat if the Hadoop Ecosphere Were a Box of Chocolates
Martyn Richard Jones Gif sur Yvette, 12th December 2017 Just because it looks like a bunch of half-baked crap, based on some well shoddy ideas and made by a surfeit of half-arsed chancers, doesn’t...
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