Category Archives: All Data

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.

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DATA WORLD: 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

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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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DATA WORLD: 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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Data must adapt or die!

03 Wednesday Jul 2019

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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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STRAIGHT TALK: Agile at Scale is Bullshit by Design

28 Tuesday May 2019

Posted by in agile, agile@scale, All Data, Architecture, Assets, awareness, behaviour, business strategy, Creativity, Dogma, IT strategy, Strategy, structured intellectual capital, Value

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cropped-p4010326.jpgMartyn Richard Jones

Bruxelles 28th May 2019

To begin at the beginning

To paraphrase the great 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 did they do that? Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to Agile at Scale with all the miscellaneous, spiced-up and vainglorious crap-on-the-side that accompanies it.

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Learning to hate Agile-at-scale

11 Saturday May 2019

Posted by in agile, All Data, Architecture, business, business strategy, Inform, educate and entertain., Methodology, Process, project management, scrum

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StupidToScaleAfilonius Rex

Cordoba, 12th May 2019

Ladies and gentlemen, the performance is about to start!

In 1998, as Programme, Product and Competence Centre manager at Hewlett-Packard, I signed the Agile Manifesto.

At that time, I had been using elements of the Agile-method mindset for the best part of sixteen years.

Previously, in 1995 I was trained and certified in Iterations, an iterative and agile-like methodology for building, maintaining and expanding data warehouses and data marts. Continue reading →