15 Wed Apr 2020
Posted in Inform, educate and entertain.
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.
Continue reading15 Wed Apr 2020
Posted in Inform, educate and entertain.
Martyn Richard Jones
San Martiño de Bandoxa
15th April 2020
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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.
Continue reading03 Tue Mar 2020
Posted in Inform, educate and entertain.
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
Continue reading12 Fri Jul 2019
Posted in anthropology, bad strategy, Economics, Philosophy, political science, Politics, Strategy
Martyn Richard Jones
Brussels, 12th July 2019
Britain’s Labour Party has been besieged by a continuous barrage of accusations alleging that the party is anti-Semitic; that it is institutionally racist and that its leader is somehow turning a blind eye to it.
This is a very serious and weighty allegation, with potentially devastating implications.
So, what does this deluge of accusations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party tell us about racism in Britain and in British politics?
Continue reading12 Fri Jul 2019
Posted in AI, All Data, Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, Cloud, data hub, Data Lake, IoT, machine learning
Martyn Richard Jones
Brussels, 10th July 2019
As George Burns put it “the key to success is sincerity” and “if you can fake that you’ve got it made.”
He was right, and you don’t need to go any further than the bizarre world of information technology, with its plethora of professional bulllshit artists, to work this one out.
Think of these folk as IT bullshit whisperers.
Continue reading12 Fri Jul 2019
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?
Continue reading03 Wed Jul 2019
Posted 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
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.
Continue reading29 Sat Jun 2019
Posted in literature, obituary, Poetry, prose
Mario Benedetti, 1920 to 2009
Martyn Richard Jones
The Jewish Chronicle website – 19th May 2009
The Uruguayan writer Mario Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno Benedetti Farugia, better known as Mario Benedetti, is no longer with us. Born in the small town of Paso de los Toros in the department of Tacuarembó, on the 14th of September 1920, he died in his home in the city of Montevideo, this last Sunday (17/5/2009), at the age of 88.
Continue reading29 Sat Jun 2019
Posted in Banking, Financial Industry, instruments, UK
Also at the Jewish Chronicle: https://www.thejc.com/blogs/financial-crisis-and-subprime-1.38100?highlight=martynineurope
Oh dear, whatever happened here? After years of over-borrowing and under-saving, the plentiful supply of cheap and easy money, the enthusiastic recklessness of a number of financial managers, and the complaisance of governments, the inevitable happened, and panic ensued.
24 Mon Jun 2019
Martyn Richard Jones
Brussels 24th June 2019
In 2016 the UK held what was called the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum the objective of which was to gauge public sentiment about the UK leaving or remaining in the EU.
It was a non-binding consultation, which means that regardless of outcome, it can be legitimately ignored by MPs.
The generally accepted nonsense about the referendum being legally or constitutionally binding was just that, nonsense.
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