Category: governance

  • DATA WORLD: Big Data: The Art of Bullshit – 2026

    DATA WORLD: Big Data: The Art of Bullshit – 2026

    Bertxin Galestara and Sir Afilonius Rex,  based on an  opinion piece written by Marty Rhisiart Jones

    Mountain View, 19th January 2017 – Bandoxa Thursday 15th January, 2026

    “I’ve been accused of vulgarity. I say that’s bullshit.” – Mel Brooks

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  • Navigating Democracy: Lessons from Tony Benn’s Perspective

    Navigating Democracy: Lessons from Tony Benn’s Perspective

    My sister was part of a group that offered support to the striking miners of Wales, Scotland and England.

    They organised a public fundraiser and invited the politician Tony Benn to speak.

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  • Can Ruth save the Tories?

    Can Ruth save the Tories?

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    Martyn Richard Jones

    Carmarthen, Wales 23rd July 2017

    The UK government is in a mess. Theresa May’s team lacks coherence, cohesiveness and credibility. It’s driven by instinct and its instincts are not clever. It’s a team that has taken on far more than it can adequately manage. It has bluffed and blustered its way to the forefront of the political beauty stakes only to be confronted with significant political, economic and social challenges for which it has no rational or reasonable strategies, policies or plans.

    The Tory cabinet is about as effective, credible and desirable as an unruly gang of drunken revellers on an extended stag-do in Benidorm.

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  • Data Supply Framework 3.0 – ETL Patterns

    Data Supply Framework 3.0 – ETL Patterns

    Martyn Richard Jones

    Mountain View, 22nd January 2015

    image3This article is the first in a series of articles that discuss aspects of the use of architectural patterns in the Cambriano Information Supply Framework 3.0

    The term architectural pattern may sound grand, misleading or daunting, but it’s really quite a simple concept. It’s like writing a function in a programming language to log in to a database, check that the connection is alive and working and report back the success of the connection request. If that function can be reused either in the same application development, in the same IT shop or in IT in general (e.g. Java code to connect and test the connection to SQL Server) then it’s well on its way to becoming an architectural pattern. Of course, there are much more sophisticated architectural patterns. But generally a pattern is a simplified and generic template for address a generally occurring problem. But as with much in architecture, less usually turns out to be more.

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  • Big Data is Bullshit – 2017

    Big Data is Bullshit – 2017

    Marty Richard Jones

    Mountain View, 19th January 2017

    “I’ve been accused of vulgarity. I say that’s bullshit.” – Mel Brooks

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  • The Digital Document Lifecycle

    The Digital Document Lifecycle

    The Digital Document Lifecycle

    MARTYN RICHARD JONES

    To begin at the beginning

    This is a story of the life of a digital document. Its purpose is to explain the process of analysing, designing, building, testing and delivering content rich business artefacts in today’s digital age.

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  • Big Data Robitussin – 2026 Version

    Big Data Robitussin – 2026 Version

    Written by Martyn Richard Jones

    Image2What does Big Data have to do with Robitussin?

    I will explain.

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