Three really stupid things you can do with a Data Lake
Martyn Richard Jones Gif sur Yvette, 27th December 2017 To begin at the beginning First, a thought. Just because it’s there, it doesn’t mean it has to be done. Just because you can, it doesn’t mean...
View ArticleDeep learning and shallow understanding
Martyn Richard Jones Bruxelles, 29th April 2019 To begin at the beginning In spite of or perhaps because of the many years I worked in artificial intelligence I believe that the current long-distance...
View ArticleFaking It – Data, media and manipulation
Martyn Richard Jones Brussels, 12th May 2019 It has recently been revealed that political campaigns are taking the unprecedented step of hiring the services of consulting companies that will assist...
View ArticleSaving Private Hadoop
Brussels 7th June 2019 Martyn Richard Jones By all accounts Hadoop is heading down the pan and bits of big data are not that far behind. But should we rejoice? In a way I might be saddened by the...
View ArticleData must adapt or die!
Martyn Richard Jones Our bloke in Brussels, 3rd July 2019 It’s a simple, timeless, human truth; data must adapt or die. Read between the lines, the writing on the wall, the fat lady singing and the...
View ArticleA Brave New World?
Martyn Richard Jones Brussels, 10th July 2019 The other day, I heard the aimless, timeless and fatuous claim that data is like an onion, and as you peel away the data-layers of the data-onion the...
View ArticleREVEALING WEALTH: USING BIG DATA TO FIGHT TAX EVASION – MARTYN JONES
REVEALING WEALTH: USING BIG DATA TO FIGHT TAX EVASION – MARTYN JONES If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper-middle class should even probably be cut further. But I...
View ArticleTHE TEN BIG DATA COMMANDMENTS
HOW TO SUCCEED WITH BIG DATA Here are the ten golden rules of belief for surefire big data success: Never question the data. The questioning of data is vanity.Never question the big data gurus. The...
View ArticleWhy I called bullshit on the data lakehouse nonsense
Why I called bullshit on the data lakehouse nonsense I wrote an article that took to task purveyors of the data lakehouse nonsense. It got plenty of positive reactions and quite a few negative...
View ArticleBig data’s unvirtuous circus and twelve v-words
Martyn Richard Jones Bandoxa 2020 LINK: Laugh at Big Data – download my ebook for free on 17th May. Many people come up to me in the street and ask me what big-data is all about. It has happened to me...
View ArticleDATA! STRATEGY, INNOVATION AND VALUE BULLSHIT
Martyn Richard Jones Oza dos Rios 9th June 2020 REMEMBER! BUY MY BOOK! LAUGHING@BIGDATA The purpose of language is to communicate—usually the conveyance of meaning from one entity to another. The...
View ArticleReality Check: Data Mesh and Data Warehousing
To begin at the beginning A few days ago, I published a blog piece that contained the following paragraphs: I am quite a fan of many aspects that sit under the Data Mesh umbrella. However, when it...
View ArticleTea with The Data Contrarian: Afilonius Rex
Martyn Jones 10th December 2021 Martyn Jones is Chief Scientist and Information Architect at Cambriano Energy. For better or worse, he is known as the Big Data Contrarian. He is the author of the...
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