10 Friday Dec 2021
Martyn Jones
10th December 2021
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.
Continue reading05 Sunday Dec 2021
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.
09 Tuesday Jun 2020
Posted in All Data, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Data Mart, Data Warehousing
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.
Continue reading17 Sunday May 2020
Martyn Richard Jones
Bonn; Germany
LINK: Laugh at Big Data – download my ebook for free on 17th May.
Many people come up to me in the street and ask me what big-data is all about. It has happened to me so many times in the past that I am convinced that it might just happen to you as well. I know sort of thing, I read the big-data tea leaves. Nothing gets past me.
Continue reading16 Saturday May 2020
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?
Continue reading15 Friday May 2020
Here are the ten golden rules of belief for surefire big data success:
Continue reading14 Thursday May 2020
Posted in 4th generation Data Warehousing, 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, Tax avoidance, Tax evasion, The Big Data Contrarians, The hidden wealth of nations
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
Continue reading12 Friday Jul 2019
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?
Continue reading03 Wednesday Jul 2019
Posted in 4th generation Data Warehousing, 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, pig data, The Amazing Big Data Challenge, The Big Data Contrarians
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.
Continue reading07 Friday Jun 2019
Brussels 7th June 2019
Martyn Richard Jones
By all accounts Hadoop is heading down the pan and bits of big data are not that far behind.
But should we rejoice?
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