Category Archives: Analytics

How Agentic AI Is Reshaping Work and Life Balance

02 Tue 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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AI and Big Data: A pig’s breakfast

10 Wed 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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Getting business value from data? Commercial analytics is where it’s at

29 Tue Mar 2016

Posted by in All Data, Analytics, Ask Martyn, Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, Commercial Analytics, dark data, data architecture, Data governance, Data Lake, data management, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Inform, educate and entertain., Martyn does, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones, pig data, sentiment analysis, The Amazing Big Data Challenge, The Big Data Contrarians

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Martyn Richard Jones

Overview

I first became involved in commercial analytics in the eighties. First, through my involvement in customer segmentation and data visualisation, principally in banking but also in energy, manufacturing and the chemical industry. It also emerged later, in conjunction with my activities at the Sperry European Centre for AI, and was centred on pricing and yield management applications developed using a combination of statistical techniques, expert system technology and data centre architectures all tightly integrated within a 4GL development and delivery environment. This provided a comprehensive and seamless scenario building, hypothesis testing and reporting capability. Continue reading →

Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 5

17 Thu Mar 2016

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Back at you! Here is the fifth fantastic delivery of an amazing and fabulous selection of free and widely available business analytics learning content, which has been prepared… just for you. Continue reading →

Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 4

09 Wed Mar 2016

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Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 3

08 Tue Mar 2016

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Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 2

07 Mon Mar 2016

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Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 1

05 Sat Mar 2016

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The Big Data Contrarians: The Agora for Big Data dialogue

11 Wed Nov 2015

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“In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.”

Hypatia

On the 1st of July, I decided to set up a professional group on LinkedIn in order to create a hype free Agora for Big Data dialogue. I called the group The Big Data Contrarians and although it is a closed group, all those with interest in an open, informed and honest exchange of ideas on data, from whatever angle they are coming from, are very welcome to join in. (URL:  http://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=8338976)

So, why is the group called The Big Data Contrarians and not something more generic, such as The Data Contrarians?

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