Category Archives: Data Warehouse

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

29 Tue Mar 2016

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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 →

Big Data: And it’s all gone quiet over there!

29 Tue Mar 2016

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Big Data is all pervasive, all seeing and all knowing.

Everyone is doing Big Data, and if they aren’t then they will.  It’s inevitable.

Big Data will revolutionise the worlds of data, decision making and business.

Am I right, or am I right?

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Consider this: Big Data Inertia

22 Tue Mar 2016

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“Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.”  Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

It’s all very well for the blithering Big Data bullshitter savants to now claim, after a massive exercise in u-turning, that Big Data isn’t after all about data volumes, velocities and varieties, but about some minor variation on the theme of data architecture, management and processing.

But, look at the mess! Continue reading →

Too Much Information

16 Wed Mar 2016

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Martyn Richard Jones

I have questions about data.

Most of us who have more than a cursory knowledge of the English language have heard of the phrase ‘too much information’. We know what it means, even if we don’t always know when to apply it.

For those who don’t know, or are unsure, the Urban Dictionary describes ‘too much information’ as “An expression of exasperation and disgust when a person is divulging personal details of his sex life, toilet habits, or anything the listener finds disgusting, uninteresting, and unwelcome.”[1]

Sum, sum. Just because we know it, doesn’t mean we should share it or even try and remember it, never mind go about analysing the hell out of it.

This is where Big Data comes in. Continue reading →

Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 4

09 Wed Mar 2016

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

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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Testing the Data Warehouse

05 Sat Mar 2016

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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

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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 →