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Data warehousing explained to big-data, data-lake & data-lakehouse folk

19 Sun Apr 2020

Posted by Martyn Jones in Inform, educate and entertain.

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Martyn Richard Jones

San Martiño de Bandoxa

19th April 2020


ADVERT:

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It’s highly polemic, contrarian and insightful. It informs, educates and entertains. And there’s a lot of it. You won’t be left indifferent.

Here’s an update on developments.

Laughing@BigData

For greater convenience my Brand new ebook Laughing@BigData (Kindle Edition) is now available at the following Amazon locations:

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Oiling the wheels-of-industry during COVID-19.

Thanks a million! Stay safe and keep well!

Martyn


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Did big-data kill the statistician?

17 Fri Apr 2020

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Did big-data kill the statistician?

Note: A version of this piece originally appeared in StatsLife, a publication of the Royal Statistical Society.

Without a grounding in statistics, a Data Scientist is a Data Lab Assistant.

Martyn Jones

Hold this thought: There are big lies, damn big lies and big-data science.

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The Three Magic Squares of the Data Lakehouse

16 Thu Apr 2020

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Martyn Richard Jones

San Martiño de Bandoxa

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA – Aranjuez

I wrote a polemic piece on the concept of a Data Lakehouse, to promote my new Amazon ebook, Laughing@BigData. And although it was well received, I have reflected and taken the time to revisit my position and to flesh out and contrast my positive and negative views.

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Laughing@BigData… Where can I buy the Ebook?

15 Wed Apr 2020

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THE GREATEST DATA STORY EVER TOLD!

For greater convenience, my new book Laughing@BigData: Talking about data, process and behaviour in the IT business – Ebook / Kindle Edition is now available at the following Amazon locations:

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The greatest data story ever sold – also available from amazon.co.uk amazon.fr amazon.it amazon.de amazon.es – etc.

15 Wed Apr 2020

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Dear Colleague,

So, here we are again… .I’m in lockdown, and I need to ply my trade the best I can. Thank you for your taking a look, and if you can, buy my book. 

I have just published my first book on IT and data on Amazon.

It’s highly polemic, contrarian and insightful. And there’s a lot of it.

For only $9.99 (8 GBP or 9 EUR – local currency exchange might fluctuate), buy this absolutely fabulous, hilariously funny and factually accurate book on big data and AI before the bit hoarders take it all… it’s for all the IT family. Upstairs and downstairs.

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Extreme Equations and Fabulous Formulas: The next big things in big data and analytics

15 Wed Apr 2020

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There has never been more interest in extreme equations and fabulous formulas than there is today.

We are on the cusp of an extraordinary revolution in every-day analysis of data, items and things. And leading the charge is the mighty double-headed megatrend-busting digital-hydra of data calculations and information recipes.

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STRAIGHT TALK: Bullshit at the Data Lakehouse

15 Wed Apr 2020

Posted by Martyn Jones in Inform, educate and entertain.

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Martyn Richard Jones

San Martiño de Bandoxa

15th April 2020


ADVERT:

LAUGHING@BIGDATA – THE GREATEST DATA STORY EVER TOLD!

laughing@bigdata

A new ebook about Agile, AI, data, deep learning, IT, machine learning and more.

It’s highly polemic, contrarian and insightful. It informs, educates and entertains. And there’s a lot of it. You won’t be left indifferent.

Here’s an update on developments.

For greater convenience my Brand new ebook Laughing@BigData (Kindle Edition) is now available at the following Amazon locations:

USA (around 9.98 USD): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B086HS6VWX

United Kingdom (around 7.99 GBP): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B086HS6VWX

Germany (around 8.99 EUR): https://www.amazon.de/dp/B086HS6VWX

France (around 8.99 EUR): https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B086HS6VWX

Spain (around 8.99 EUR): https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B086HS6VWX

Italy (around 8.99 EUR): https://www.amazon.it/dp/B086HS6VWX

Netherlands (around 8.99 EUR): https://www.amazon.nl/dp/B086HS6VWX

Japan (around 1,099 YEN): https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B086HS6VWX

Brazil (around 24.99 BRL): https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B086HS6VWX

Canada(around 9.99 CAD): https://www.Amazon.ca/dp/B086HS6VWX

Mexico (around 149.99 MXN): https://www.amazon.com.mx/dp/B086HS6VWX

Australia (around 10.99 AUD): https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B086HS6VWX

India (around 449 INR): https://www.amazon.in/dp/B086HS6VWX

Please consider sharing these links and a recommendation with friends, connections, groups, colleagues, partners, peers, family and bosses.

Oiling the wheels-of-industry during COVID-19.

Thanks a million! Stay safe and keep well!

Martyn


Move over big data hubris and data lake stupidity there’s a newer, thicker and far bigger arsehole on the block. And it goes by the unbelievably idiotic name of data lakehouse. It is being hailed as a new paradigm but is, in reality, a naive, dishonest and disruptive fraud. So what’s occurring?

The gutter-snipes, hustlers and useless pundits who failed to make big data and data lakes the success of the 2010s have set their vulture-eyed sights on data warehousing. It’s not smart, it is not funny, and it does no one any service.

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Historical big data will save the future

03 Tue Mar 2020

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Martyn Richard Jones

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.

Nils Bohr

Can we predict the future of humankind in the same way that we forecast the weather?

In an article published in The Guardian, the journalist Laura Spinney discusses how historical data could be used, not only to predict the future of humankind but to save it as well. The piece titled “History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future” discussed how a small group of academics had come up with the notion that the analysis of historical big-data could be used in useful ways for the common good. At least that was my initial takeaway.

The estate

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A Brave New World?

12 Fri Jul 2019

Posted by Martyn Jones in All Data, Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, dark data, Inform, educate and entertain.

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Martyn Richard Jones

Brussels, 10th July 2019

The other day, I heard the aimless, timeless and fatuous claim that data is like an onion, and as you peel away the data-layers of the data-onion the data-onion-detail will become clearer.

Is it me, or is this someone who has never ever chopped up an onion in their life?

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Data must adapt or die!

03 Wed Jul 2019

Posted by Martyn Jones in All Data, Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, dark data, data architecture, Data governance, Data Lake, data management, Data Mart, 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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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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