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  • Too Much Information

    Too Much Information

    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. (more…)

  • Can You Read? Be Honest, Now

    Can You Read? Be Honest, Now

    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. (more…)

  • Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 4

    Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 4

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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. (more…)

  • Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 3

    Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 3

    Image4Why buy when you can get it for free?

    Back at you! Here is the third fantastic delivery of an amazing and fabulous selection of free and widely available business analytics learning content, which has been prepared… just for you. (more…)

  • Testing the Data Warehouse

    Testing the Data Warehouse

    Image1Martyn Richard Jones

    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. (more…)

  • How Hadoop Revolutionised IT

    How Hadoop Revolutionised IT

    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. (more…)

  • Big Data: And the Hype Played On

    Big Data: And the Hype Played On

    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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