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Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 4

09 Wed Mar 2016

Posted by Martyn Jones in All Data, Analytics, Ask Martyn, Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, business strategy, dark data, data architecture, Data governance, Data Lake, data management, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Good Strat, Good Strategy, goodstrat, Inform, educate and entertain., IT strategy, Marty does, Martyn does, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones, pig data, statistics, Strategy, The Amazing Big Data Challenge, The Big Data Contrarians

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Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 3

08 Tue Mar 2016

Posted by Martyn Jones in All Data, Analytics, Ask Martyn, Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, business strategy, dark data, data architecture, Data governance, Data Lake, data management, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Good Strategy, Inform, educate and entertain., IT strategy, Marty does, Martyn does, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones, pig data, Process, Strategy, The Amazing Big Data Challenge, The Big Data Contrarians

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Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 2

07 Mon Mar 2016

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

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Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 1

05 Sat Mar 2016

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

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Testing the Data Warehouse

05 Sat Mar 2016

Posted by Martyn Jones in All Data, Ask Martyn, Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, business strategy, dark data, data architecture, Data governance, Data Lake, data management, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Good Strat, Good Strategy, goodstrat, Inform, educate and entertain., IT strategy, Martyn does, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones, pig data, Strategy, The Amazing Big Data Challenge, The Big Data Contrarians

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Dusseldorf, August 2006

Data Warehousing provides possibly one of the best opportunities for IT organizations to deliver a valuable business solution in order to address a set of business needs; requirements that go well beyond the area of day to day operational support, and traditional applications (web enabled or not), and when Data Warehousing is done the right way, and for the right reasons, its payback to all of its stakeholders can be positively significant. Continue reading →

How Hadoop Revolutionised IT

05 Sat Mar 2016

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

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This is the story of how the amazing Hadoop ecosphere revolutionised IT. If you enjoy it, then consider joining The Big Data Contrarians.

Before the advent of Hadoop and its ecosphere, IT was a desperate wasteland of failed opportunities, archaic technology and broken promises.

In the dark Cambrian days of bits, mercury delay lines and ferrite cores, we knew nothing about digital. The age of big iron did little to change matters, and vendors made enormous profits selling systems that nobody could use and even fewer people could understand. Continue reading →

In the Beginning was the Big Data Plan

23 Tue Feb 2016

Posted by Martyn Jones in Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, Data governance, Data Lake, data science, Data Warehouse, Dogma, DW 3.0, Inform, educate and entertain., Information Management, Information Supply Frameowrk, Infotrends, Inmon, sentiment analysis

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In the beginning was the Big Iron, the Big Data, and the Big Data Plan.

And then came the Big Data Assumptions.

And the Big Data Assumptions were without form.

And the Big Data Plan was without substance.

And the Big Iron was without movement.

And the Big Data was without velocity, variety and volume.

And darkness was upon the face of the data workers.

And they spoke amongst themselves, saying: “Big Data, is a crock of shit, and it stinketh mucho”.

And the data workers went unto their Data Supervisors and said: “This here Big Data is a pile of putrid crappy keech”, for they were from Govan, and continued, “and none may abide the odour thereof”.

And the Data Supervisors went unto their Information Managers, saying: “Big Data is a container of excrement, and it is very strong, such that none may abide by it.”

And the Information Managers went unto their Business Directors, saying: “This here Big Data doodoo is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide its strength.”

And the Business Directors spoke amongst themselves, saying to one another: “Big Data contains that which aids plant growth, and it is very powerful.”

And the Vice Presidents went unto the President, saying unto him: “This new Big Data will actively promote the growth and vigour of the company, with powerful effects.”

And the President looked upon the Big Iron, the Big Data and the Big Data Plan, and saw that they were good.

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Stories From the Data Warehousing Front-Line

21 Sun Feb 2016

Posted by Martyn Jones in Big Data, Big Data 7s, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Good Strat, Good Strategy, goodstart, goodstrat, Inform, educate and entertain., Information Management, Information Supply Frameowrk, Information Supply Framework, Inmon, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones, Strategy, The Big Data Contrarians

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NB THIS IS FICTION

All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Data warehousing, what is it like?

Although the answers are probably obvious, and to be honest, compared to the Big Data hype-circus, this is a walk in the park, I have often wondered why Data Warehousing attracts such a surfeit of lazy, socially inept and shallow-thinking chancers. Continue reading →

12 Amazing Big Data Success Stories for 2016

22 Tue Dec 2015

Posted by Martyn Jones in Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, Consider this, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Good Strat, Good Strategy, Inform, educate and entertain., IT strategy, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones, The Big Data Contrarians, Uncategorized

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If this piece tickles your fancy, then please consider joining The Big Data Contrarians on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8338976

Every year I ask myself the same question. Will there be any tangible, coherent and verifiable Big Data success stories in the coming year? Every year I come up with nothing. Nothing at all. “Sorry, no rooms at the Big Data Success Inn, as we are closed for vacations.”

However, this year things are different. More positive, more alive and more fantastic. Continue reading →

Big Data: And the Hype Played On

10 Thu Dec 2015

Posted by Martyn Jones in Ask Martyn, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, business strategy, Good Strat, Good Strategy, goodstrat, Inform, educate and entertain., IT strategy, Marty does, Martyn does, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones, Strategy, The Amazing Big Data Challenge, The Big Data Contrarians, Uncategorized

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Despite the best efforts of Hadoop evangelists, consulting houses, and IT infrastructure and service vendors, Big Data – hailed as the greatest thing since the dawn of greatest things – is failing, and dramatically so, to produce the necessarily corresponding quantity and quality of tangible, detailed and verifiable success stories.
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