Author Archives: Martyn Jones

Does your way of providing data have business value?

19 Sun Mar 2023

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Does your way of providing data have business value?

Narrator: Okay, where to begin? First, let us start with some real-life user stories. And for those who are unfamiliar with user stories, they are one of the most effective ways that business has of telling IT people what they want. Think of them as micro-stories that convey a problem, facets of the problem and potential ways to address those problems.  Such as, “as a consumer of wine I would like to be able to add wine to fruit, ice and lemonade in order to create a refreshing summer drink”.

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Data warehousing stands in the way of progress

18 Sat Mar 2023

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Data warehousing stands in the way of  progress

Narrator: Let us start with a softball question, the kind even your granny could knock out of the park.

How does business describe the value it gets from being able to access and analyse fresh quality data in order to decide what is strategically, tactically and operationally preferable in the future of the business?

What do Pete and Dud think about that?

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Data Trailblazers: 2022 Vision

02 Sun Jan 2022

Posted by in All Data, data management, data mesh, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Inform, educate and entertain., no limits, The Amazing Big Data Challenge

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Data Trailblazers: 2022 Vision

Martyn Richard Jones

2nd January 2022

Martyn Jones is Chief Scientist and Information Architect at Cambriano Energy, and is the author of Laughing @ Big Data he manages The Big Data Contrarian group on LinkedIn and blogs at goodstrat.com

To begin at the beginning

So, the Christmas season is almost upon us, and it’s time once again to publish my brand-spanking new top twelve data trend predictions for the new year, 2022.

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Tea with The Data Contrarian: Afilonius Rex

10 Fri Dec 2021

Posted by in agile, All Data, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Data governance, data hub, data management, Data Warehousing, Inform, educate and entertain., The Big Data Contrarians

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Martyn Jones

10th December 2021

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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 widely acclaimed eBook Laughing @ Big Data, available at amazon.com.

Tea with The Data Contrarian is a series of interviews around data and analytics.

Today, Martyn talks with the great Afilonius Rex on contemporary trends, fads, and fancies in data, analytics and more.

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Reality Check: Data Mesh and Data Warehousing  

05 Sun Dec 2021

Posted by in All Data, Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, dark data, data architecture, Data governance, data hub, Data Lake, data management, Data Mart, data mesh, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Inform, educate and entertain., The Big Data Contrarians

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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 comes to a proper fact-based understanding and analysis of the history, place and architecture (business, data and technical) of Data Warehousing the leading exponents of data mesh have it woefully wrong.

Therefore, the purpose of this blog article is to set the record straight.

However, it seems to be that denial and specious arguments, are the preferred weapons of choice, over simply and honestly engaging in a professional discourse about these concerns.

Fast-forward to the future

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Myth-busting: Data Mesh and Data Warehousing – Revisited

25 Thu Nov 2021

Posted by in agile, anthropology, Architecture, Best principles, Data Mart, data mesh, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, hadoop, Inform, educate and entertain.

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To begin at the beginning

I am quite a fan of many aspects that sit under the Data Mesh umbrella. However, when it comes to a proper fact-based understanding and analysis of the history, place and architecture (business, data and technical) of Data Warehousing, the leading exponents of data mesh have it woefully wrong.

Therefore, the purpose of this blog article is to set the record straight.

The data warehouse as a place to copy OLTP exhaust data to?

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STRAIGHT TALK: Heaven help us! Have you seen the latest Virtual Data Warehouse bullshit?

26 Fri Jun 2020

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Martyn Richard Jones

Bonn, Germany

27th June 2020

Heaven help us! Talk about taking a great idea and destroying its heart, spirit and soul.  

Again, and in data architecture and management terms, that’s what the virtual data warehouse blaggers are doing with data warehousing, one more time.  

These virtual data warehouse folk talk about it as if it were merely magic. No effort required.

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DATA WORLD: DATA! STRATEGY, INNOVATION AND VALUE BULLSHIT

09 Tue Jun 2020

Posted by in All Data, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Data Mart, Data Warehousing

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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 value of communication is based on the availability of timely, appropriate and adequate information. In this way, it is positive. But communication can also be used to manipulate, deceive and confuse.

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Big data’s unvirtuous circus and twelve v-words

17 Sun May 2020

Posted by in Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, Inform, educate and entertain., The Amazing Big Data Challenge, The Big Data Contrarians

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Martyn Richard Jones

Bonn; Germany

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 so many times in the past that I am convinced that it might just happen to you as well. I know sort of thing, I read the big-data tea leaves. Nothing gets past me.

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