16 Wed Oct 2024
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bad-data-bible, data, film, information, knowledge, Poetry, relationships, the-big-data-contrarian, updates, writing
Narrator: How do you raise a data child to be a great, honest, committed data professional? That is the question.
Continue reading15 Tue Oct 2024
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Architecture, data, design, english, english-grammar, grammar, information, language, Management, writing
Narrator: To know data, you must know the grammar of data, information and knowledge. Depending on the language and its precision, accuracy, and richness, we will have a reasonable idea of approaching data and information modelling issues. To know data and information, you must understand the business well. People with a technical background and little or no business knowledge are often oblivious to their ignorance regarding business data and information. When you have a technician in the industry who doesn’t understand this, it’s a problem. If your technician is located thousands of kilometres from your company, it’s a disaster waiting to happen. Let’s listen to Pete and Dud wax lyrical about the importance of language and grammar.
Continue reading14 Mon Oct 2024
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AI, blog, education, psychology, writing
Narrator: In past times of crisis, we depended more on who we considered to be experts. These days, rightly or wrongly, we have become more cynical about experts and their expert analysis and advice.
An old Russian proverb urges us “to trust and verify.”
Continue reading14 Mon Oct 2024
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Martyn Jones, Cariño, 14th October 2024
Narrator: Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the fabulous Mel Brooks.
Dole Officer: “Occupation?”
Citizen: “Standup-Philosopher!”
Dole Officer: “What?”
Citizen: “Standup Philosopher. I coalesce the vapours of human experience into a viable and logical comprehension.”
Dole Officer: “Oh! A bullshit artist!”
Continue reading14 Mon Oct 2024
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Martyn Jones, The Data Contrarian, Cariño, Monday 14th October 2024.
Narrator: Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the fabulous Mel Brooks.
Dole Officer: “Occupation?”
Citizen: “Standup-Philosopher!”
Dole Officer: “What?”
Citizen: “Standup Philosopher. I coalesce the vapours of human experience into a viable and logical comprehension.”
Continue reading10 Thu Oct 2024
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Martyn Jones, Santander, 10th October 2024
Narrator: The development method for data warehousing, whether following Inmon or Kimball, has always been iterative with apparent aspects of self-service, agility, rapid development and end-user development.
Dud: We always built data warehouses iteratively, didn’t we, Pete?
Pete: Yes, that’s right, Dud. Iterations are delivered in increments. Small enough to be quickly deliverable. Large enough to be significant to the business.
Continue reading10 Thu Oct 2024
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Martyn Jones, Santoña, 10th October 2024.
Narrator: Do minimum viable and acceptable products exist in data warehousing? That’s the question.
Continue reading06 Sun Oct 2024
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Dud: Why do some jokers claim data warehousing is just about technology?
Continue reading04 Fri Oct 2024
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“Great things in business are never done by one person;
they’re done by a team of people.”
Steve Jobs
Martyn Richard Jones, Tours, 4th October 2024
Narrator: There is a widespread belief amongst the know-it-all crowd that data warehousing and business intelligence necessarily mean monolithic and siloed teams. And that the only way of moving away from such team organisations is to kill off data warehousing. But is this really a rational, coherent, and cohesive approach, as some people say it is? Or is it destructive stupidity born out of conceit, ignorance, and arrogance?
Continue reading03 Thu Oct 2024
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Martyn Richard Jones
“Logistics is all of war-making, except shooting the guns, releasing the bombs, and firing the torpedoes.”
ADM Lynde D. McCormick, USN
Martyn Richard Jones, Córdoba, 3rd October 2024
Narrator: Here is a billion-dollar question: Can Agile-to-Scale be effectively used to fight a war, a regional conflict, or a global existential threat?
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