16 Sat May 2020
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 opinions. But what surprised me the most were the number of people who had already swallowed their pitch. Hook, line and sinker.
So why did I bother to express my opinions on the subject?
Continue reading16 Sat May 2020
Posted in Inform, educate and entertain.
To celebrate the United Nations World Telecommunication and Information Society Day and International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, my new eBook laughing@bigdata will be free to download from all Amazon sites on Sunday 17th May 2020.
Continue reading15 Fri May 2020
Here are the ten golden rules of belief for surefire big data success:
Continue reading14 Thu May 2020
Posted in All Data, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, dark data, data architecture, Data governance, data hub, Data Lake, data management, Data Mart, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Europe, European Union, Inform, educate and entertain., Tax avoidance, Tax evasion, The Big Data Contrarians, The hidden wealth of nations
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 think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it.
Warren Buffett
Continue reading08 Fri May 2020
Posted in Inform, educate and entertain.
Laughing@BigData – New data eBook available at Amazon
Why laugh at Big Data? Informative, educating and entertaining, Laughing@BigData gives you real insider views on big data, agile, AI, data, deep learning, data warehousing, data lakes, IT strategy, leadership and management and much more. If you have the theory this gives you insight into the practice.
Get it from Amazon. It’s super-easy.
Continue reading08 Fri May 2020
Posted in literature, poem, poems, Poetry
06 Wed May 2020
Posted in Inform, educate and entertain.
When I was a kid, that’s all we had was Robitussin. Whatever you got, Robitussin better handle it. I broke my leg once; daddy poured Robitussin all over it.
Chris Rock
What does big-data have to do with Robitussin? Let me explain.
Continue reading06 Wed May 2020
Posted in Inform, educate and entertain.
It’s not over even when the dead cat bounces.
Coco Jones
Hi, I’m Ricky Jones, boss and co-founder of Becci Boo International Investments. Last week we said goodbye to our best big-data energy commodity trader. It was sad to see him leave. He’d been with us for many years.
Continue reading06 Wed May 2020
Posted in Inform, educate and entertain.
It takes courage to makes things simple.
E. F. Schumacher
To paraphrase the advertising legend Bob Hoffman: ‘Just when you thought that if evangelists for Agile were to generate one more ounce of bullshit, the entire fucking solar system would explode, what do they do? Exceed expectations.’
And how do they do that? Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll let you into a little secret about this Agile@Scale stuff, including a brief tour of some of the miscellaneous, spiced-up and vainglorious crap-on-the-side that accompanies it.
But first, a quick look at Agile.
Continue reading27 Mon Apr 2020
Posted in Inform, educate and entertain.
GOOD STRATEGY 