Author Archives: Martyn Jones

STRAIGHT TALK: Bullshit at the Data Lakehouse

15 Wed Apr 2020

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Martyn Richard Jones

San Martiño de Bandoxa

15th April 2020

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Oiling the wheels-of-industry during COVID-19.

Thanks a million! Stay safe and keep well!

Martyn

Move over big data hubris and data lake stupidity there’s a newer, thicker and far bigger arsehole on the block. And it goes by the unbelievably idiotic name of data lakehouse. It is being hailed as a new paradigm but is, in reality, a naive, dishonest and disruptive fraud. So what’s occurring?

The gutter-snipes, hustlers and useless pundits who failed to make big data and data lakes the success of the 2010s have set their vulture-eyed sights on data warehousing. It’s not smart, it is not funny, and it does no one any service.

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Historical big data will save the future

03 Tue Mar 2020

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Martyn Richard Jones

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.

Nils Bohr

Can we predict the future of humankind in the same way that we forecast the weather?

In an article published in The Guardian, the journalist Laura Spinney discusses how historical data could be used, not only to predict the future of humankind but to save it as well. The piece titled “History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future” discussed how a small group of academics had come up with the notion that the analysis of historical big-data could be used in useful ways for the common good. At least that was my initial takeaway.

The estate

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Fixing racism in Labour and in England

12 Fri Jul 2019

Posted by in anthropology, bad strategy, Economics, Philosophy, political science, Politics, Strategy

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Racism (and anti-Semitism) in the UK

Martyn Richard Jones

Brussels, 12th July 2019

To begin at the beginning

Britain’s Labour Party has been besieged by a continuous barrage of accusations alleging that the party is anti-Semitic; that it is institutionally racist and that its leader is somehow turning a blind eye to it.

This is a very serious and weighty allegation, with potentially devastating implications.

So, what does this deluge of accusations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party tell us about racism in Britain and in British politics?

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Information Technology Mirror Balls!

12 Fri Jul 2019

Posted by in AI, All Data, Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, Cloud, data hub, Data Lake, IoT, machine learning

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Coffee and cakes for breakfast
On the Way of Saint James

Martyn Richard Jones

Brussels, 10th July 2019

As George Burns put it “the key to success is sincerity” and “if you can fake that you’ve got it made.”

He was right, and you don’t need to go any further than the bizarre world of information technology, with its plethora of professional bulllshit artists, to work this one out.

Think of these folk as IT bullshit whisperers.

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A Brave New World?

12 Fri Jul 2019

Posted by in All Data, Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, dark data, Inform, educate and entertain.

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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 data-onion-detail will become clearer.

Is it me, or is this someone who has never ever chopped up an onion in their life?

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Data must adapt or die!

03 Wed Jul 2019

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

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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 barking dogs at the gate.

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Mario Benedetti, 1920 to 2009

29 Sat Jun 2019

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Mario Benedetti, 1920 to 2009

Martyn Richard Jones

The Jewish Chronicle website – 19th May 2009

The Uruguayan writer Mario Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno Benedetti Farugia, better known as Mario Benedetti, is no longer with us. Born in the small town of Paso de los Toros in the department of Tacuarembó, on the 14th of September 1920, he died in his home in the city of Montevideo, this last Sunday (17/5/2009), at the age of 88.

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Financial crisis and subprime – 2nd March 2009

29 Sat Jun 2019

Posted by in Banking, Financial Industry, instruments, UK

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Also at the Jewish Chronicle: https://www.thejc.com/blogs/financial-crisis-and-subprime-1.38100?highlight=martynineurope


Oh dear, whatever happened here? After years of over-borrowing and under-saving, the plentiful supply of cheap and easy money, the enthusiastic recklessness of a number of financial managers, and the complaisance of governments, the inevitable happened, and panic ensued.

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IT’S POLITCS: Brexit bullshit! Labour must lead!

24 Mon Jun 2019

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Martyn Richard Jones

Brussels 24th June 2019

In 2016 the UK held what was called the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum the objective of which was to gauge public sentiment about the UK leaving or remaining in the EU.

It was a non-binding consultation, which means that regardless of outcome, it can be legitimately ignored by MPs.

The generally accepted nonsense about the referendum being legally or constitutionally binding was just that, nonsense.

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IT’S POLITICS: “Will of the people” bullshit

22 Sat Jun 2019

Posted by in Brexit, Consultation, Democracy, Duties, EU, Europe, European Union, Freedoms, Obligations, Parliament, Politics, Referendum, RIghts, UK

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Martyn Richard Jones

Brussels Saturday 22nd June 2019

In 2016 the UK held what was offically known as the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, a non-binding consultation with the people of the UK on the question of the UK leaving or remaining in the EU.

51.9% of those who voted supported the UK’s exit from the European Union.

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