Category Archives: All Data

CEO BRIEFING: Deep learning and shallow understanding

11 Saturday May 2019

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Martyn Richard Jones

Bruxelles, 29th April 2019

To begin at the beginning

In spite of or perhaps because of the many years I worked in artificial intelligence I believe that the current long-distance love affair with AI and what is also euphemistically termed ‘deep learning’ to be somewhat irrational in its exuberance.

In the eighties I was experimenting with automatic feature extraction, pattern recognition and parallel distributed processing (see Rumelhart and McClelland), which led me to adaptive neural networks.

As a result, my research and development in this field showed me that automatically mining nuggets of gold or automatically gaining real insight from data is not easy, far from stable and frequently not achievable.  Interesting experiments, but frequently impractical in a business setting. Continue reading →

Three really stupid things you can do with a Data Lake

28 Thursday Dec 2017

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Gif sur Yvette, 27th December 2017

To begin at the beginning

First, a thought.

Just because it’s there, it doesn’t mean it has to be done. Just because you can, it doesn’t mean that you should. Just because you believe you are right, doesn’t mean that you are not wrong.

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Business Data Explained: The Long Read

07 Saturday Oct 2017

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Martyn Richard Jones, Gif sur Yvette 23rd September 2017

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Hi, Friends. As always, it’s great to be able to engage with you again. I am writing to you from the splendorous, wooded and verdant French town of Gif sur Yvette, and I wanted to take this opportunity to address aspects of data for an audience beyond the interests of data management and architecture people.

There is confusion about some of the fundamental aspects of business data, and there shouldn’t. If we strip away all of the boloney, it’s a subject that is quite approachable. In short, ‘it is not rocket surgery’. Continue reading →

STRAIGHT TALK: How to turn data into knowledge

02 Wednesday Aug 2017

Posted by in All Data, Architecture, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, data architecture, Data governance, data management, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Good Strategy, Inform, educate and entertain., information, Information Management, Information Supply Framework, IT strategy, Knowledge, knowledge management, Marketing, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones, Sales, structured intellectual capital, wisdom

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Martyn Jones

Zurich, Switzerland – 3rd August 2017

Image2If anyone can turn data into knowledge then that person is me.

Let me explain.

I am a data architecture and management professional. For more than three decades I have been acquiring knowledge and experience in the design and delivery of effective data and solutions architectures for a wide range of projects and in a wide range of (mainly large global or regional) enterprise clients.

Therefore I think I can reasonably presume to have built up quite a good personal body of knowledge when it comes to applied data architecture and management.

As well as being a professional in the management and architecture of data, I have also considerable knowledge and experience in the areas of information management, artificial intelligence and knowledge management (structured intellectual capital).

So, what about turning data or information into knowledge? Continue reading →

STRAIGHT TALK: 5 Simple Tips to Help You Survive the Big Data Bullshit Revolution

02 Sunday Jul 2017

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Dunny on the Wold, 1st July 2017

The 4th big data bullshit is here, and it is completely reimagining the way we conceptualise, think and reason. This amazingly and imaginary Govesque world is driven by hyperbole and mendacity distributed via interconnected digital devices that are capable of amassing and fermenting ever-growing amounts of big data bullshit.

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Become an Instant Big Data Rock Star with 10 Insider Tips from the Top

28 Sunday May 2017

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Talacharn, 28th May 2017

Folks! Here I bring you ten amazing tips from some of Big Data’s great and good. Tips that will help you become the Big Data Rock Star that you have always dreamed of being.

But first, a question.

What’s the sexiest job in the 21st century? Continue reading →

How to turn internal user data into a massive liability – Zéro pièce

18 Thursday May 2017

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Martyn Richard Jones

Laugharne 18th May 2017

“Our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.”

― Dylan Thomas

Let me explain

I read a poster the other, it read “How To Turn Internal User Data Into Revenue”. It was one of those Facebook or LinkedIn hooks, you know, the ones used to get people to spend precious time on useless pursuits.

It reminded me of a book that my mother-in-law bought for my partner, many, many moons ago. “How to make a mint whilst you snooze”, or some such wacky title.

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TEAM 2.0 Total Eminence Analytical Mapper – The highest level architecture

13 Saturday May 2017

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This is the draft version of TEAM 0.1

The TEAM 2.0 version will be published in June 2017.

This will by far the best and most streamlined and comprehensive analytics and (big) data framework that has ever existed in the life-time of IT.

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Many thanks for reading.

AI and Big Data: A pig’s breakfast

10 Wednesday May 2017

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Pigs_eating_pumpkins.jpgMartyn Richard Jones

Dublin 10th May 2017

Throw AI, Big Data and Data Science into a pot, and what have you got?

Yes. A pig’s breakfast, not fit for a pig.

Let me explain

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