Category: data architecture

  • REVEALING WEALTH: USING BIG DATA TO FIGHT TAX EVASION – MARTYN JONES

    REVEALING WEALTH: USING BIG DATA TO FIGHT TAX EVASION – MARTYN JONES

    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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  • Data must adapt or die!

    Data must adapt or die!

    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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  • Three really stupid things you can do with a Data Lake

    Three really stupid things you can do with a Data Lake

    OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAMartyn Richard Jones

    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

    Business Data Explained: The Long Read

    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’. (more…)

  • STRAIGHT TALK: How to turn data into knowledge

    STRAIGHT TALK: How to turn data into knowledge

    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? (more…)

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

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

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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

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

    002Martyn Richard Jones  

    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? (more…)

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

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

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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

    TEAM 2.0 Total Eminence Analytical Mapper – The highest level architecture

    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.

    TEAM2

    Many thanks for reading.

  • AI and Big Data: A pig’s breakfast

    AI and Big Data: A pig’s breakfast

    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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