14 Mon Oct 2024
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Narrator: In past times of crisis, we depended more on who we considered to be experts. These days, rightly or wrongly, we have become more cynical about experts and their expert analysis and advice.
An old Russian proverb urges us “to trust and verify.”
Continue reading04 Fri Oct 2024
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“Great things in business are never done by one person;
they’re done by a team of people.”
Steve Jobs
Martyn Richard Jones, Tours, 4th October 2024
Narrator: There is a widespread belief amongst the know-it-all crowd that data warehousing and business intelligence necessarily mean monolithic and siloed teams. And that the only way of moving away from such team organisations is to kill off data warehousing. But is this really a rational, coherent, and cohesive approach, as some people say it is? Or is it destructive stupidity born out of conceit, ignorance, and arrogance?
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Martyn Jones, Manhattan, 29th September 2024
Narrator: According to some data-mesh folk, data warehousing is “a data management construct that dates back to the eighties,” I have a problem with that. It’s as if that was somehow a bad thing. Is it? For me, that’s quite a weak argument that, in a way, treats people as if they were idiots.
It is like someone asking Newton, “So, Sir Isaac, you don’t still believe in that old gravity nonsense, do you?”
Continue reading26 Thu Sep 2024
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Martyn Jones, New Jersey
Narrator: Here, in this piece, we wander down Differential Avenue to look at what people consider domain and subject orientation. This story is about the good, the embarrassingly lousy hyperbole and then the ugliest provocative nonsense.
Continue reading21 Sat Sep 2024
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Martyn Richard Jones, A Coruña, Spain.
To set the scene, get to the point, and give this thing the well-deserved impulse, impetus, and notoriety, I will begin like Dylan Thomas in Under Milk Wood—that is, at the beginning.
And for folk who struggle with big words? That’s the start.
So, to get things rolling modestly, I will explain where I am coming from with this demanding, triumphant and considered endeavour of mirth, myth and mysticism.
And, if that fails, we move on. Right? Right!
Continue reading16 Sat May 2020
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To celebrate the United Nations World Telecommunication and Information Society Day and International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, my new eBook laughing@bigdata will be free to download from all Amazon sites on Sunday 17th May 2020.
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