Category Archives: All Data

How Agentic AI Is Reshaping Work and Life Balance

02 Tuesday Dec 2025

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Martyn Rhisiart Jones

A Coruña, 2nd December 2025

Agentic AI – The 007 of Computer Bonding

Introduction

Agentic AI refers to advanced AI agents. They are capable of independently chasing ambitious, open-ended objectives. These agents break tasks into steps and reason iteratively. They wield tools and persist through obstacles with minimal human guidance. In summary: think of a less obedient tucan. Imagine a more relentlessly competent understudy. This AI can orchestrate your travel, chase invoices, or conduct desk research. It does all this while you’re on the Amalfi Coast with an Aperol spritz. The phrase du jour in Palo Alto marks a shift. Assistants move from being responsive to becoming genuinely proactive. Your to-do list may soon sort itself out as if by magic.

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Data Trailblazers: 2022 Vision

02 Sunday 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 Friday 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 Sunday 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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DATA! STRATEGY, INNOVATION AND VALUE BULLSHIT

09 Tuesday 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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Why I called bullshit on the data lakehouse nonsense

16 Saturday May 2020

Posted by 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, Inform, educate and entertain., The Big Data Contrarians

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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 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?

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REVEALING WEALTH: USING BIG DATA TO FIGHT TAX EVASION – MARTYN JONES

14 Thursday May 2020

Posted by 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

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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

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Information Technology Mirror Balls!

12 Friday 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 Friday 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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