Category Archives: Good Strat

Yo! Professional networkers! BlankedOut Sucked

17 Thursday Mar 2016

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Martyn Richard Jones

Hello, readers.

Before my Aunt Dolly went to a better place she received a handwritten letter from her dear friend and long-time admirer Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling, which was to be passed on to the CEO of, what he called, an interweb professional dating site. My Aunt Dolly didn’t actually give me a precise indication of the intended recipient, this is why I now find myself at a loss. If there’s anyone out there who recognises the person or persons this letter might have been written to, then please let me know. Many thanks in advance.

What follows is Sir Arthur’s text, as relayed to me by my sainted Aunt Dolly. Continue reading →

Too Much Information

16 Wednesday 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 →

Can You Read? Be Honest, Now

15 Tuesday Mar 2016

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Martyn Richard Jones

When you have read this, if indeed you read it all, will I have failed to convey the essence of what I am trying to get at? Will a confusion of entropy win the battle? Will the wheel of fortune turn in my favour, or will I fail to connect and communicate effectively?

Let’s give it a spin and see what happens. Continue reading →

Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 4

09 Wednesday Mar 2016

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Why buy when you can get it for free?

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 →

Testing the Data Warehouse

05 Saturday 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 →

A data superhero is something to be

02 Wednesday Mar 2016

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SuperHeroA data warehousing superhero is something to be

Not all that glitters is Big Data, and Big Data has a long way to go before it can deliver anything like the same satisfying results, tangible benefits and organisational agility that a properly implemented Inmon Enterprise Data Warehouse can provide.

Therefore, I have a question for you.

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Stories From the Data Warehousing Front-Line

21 Sunday Feb 2016

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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 Tuesday Dec 2015

Posted by 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 Thursday Dec 2015

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MARTYN RICHARD JONES

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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Big Data Predictions for 2015: What happened next?

07 Monday Dec 2015

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Towards the end of 2014 I gazed into the amazingly incredible crystal ball called Good Strategy, well known and admired by the readers of the Good Strat Blog, and made some predictions about Big Data for the year to come. The year of the goat. As I write now we are reaching the end of the wonderful year of 2015 – an anno quite-allrightus. So, equipped with good cheer, emboldened by the thoughts of passing the vacations with loved ones, friends and family, and heartened by my impending (albeit temporary) demobilization, I have decided to look back at my predictions of a year ago, to see how accurate or mistaken they ‘have become’, and to share those reflections with you. Continue reading →