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Martyn Jones – Author

08 Tuesday Apr 2025

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Hold up, folks! You’re going to love these! They are amazing, beautiful, classy, dazzling and eminently readable. And that’s an absolute understatement of Mel Brook’s proportions.

As a writer, I have several works to my name. This post highlights some of these works. It also offers a quick link to the Amazon platform, where you can get your editions.

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Is Data Warehousing Really Outdated?

29 Sunday Sep 2024

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Data warehousing is out of date?

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?”

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Data Warehousing means monolithic databases?

27 Friday Sep 2024

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Data Warehousing means monolithic databases?

Martyn Jones, Brooklyn, 27th September 2024

Narrator: Another false meme doing the rounds is that Data Warehousing necessarily means monolithic databases. This is not what data warehouses have been for many businesses.

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Laugh at Big Data – download my ebook for free on 17th May.

16 Saturday 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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Laughing at Big Data – eBook – Great new insight into realities of IT

08 Friday May 2020

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Laughing@BigData – New data eBook available at Amazon

Why laugh at Big Data? Informative, educating and entertaining, Laughing@BigData gives you real insider views on big data, agile, AI, data, deep learning, data warehousing, data lakes, IT strategy, leadership and management and much more. If you have the theory this gives you insight into the practice.

Get it from Amazon. It’s super-easy.

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Getting business value from data? Commercial analytics is where it’s at

29 Tuesday Mar 2016

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Martyn Richard Jones

Overview

I first became involved in commercial analytics in the eighties. First, through my involvement in customer segmentation and data visualisation, principally in banking but also in energy, manufacturing and the chemical industry. It also emerged later, in conjunction with my activities at the Sperry European Centre for AI, and was centred on pricing and yield management applications developed using a combination of statistical techniques, expert system technology and data centre architectures all tightly integrated within a 4GL development and delivery environment. This provided a comprehensive and seamless scenario building, hypothesis testing and reporting capability. Continue reading →

Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 5

17 Thursday Mar 2016

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Why buy when you can get it for free?

Back at you! Here is the fifth fantastic delivery of an amazing and fabulous selection of free and widely available business analytics learning content, which has been prepared… just for you. Continue reading →

Can You Read? Be Honest, Now

15 Tuesday Mar 2016

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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?

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The Big Data Contrarians: The Agora for Big Data dialogue

11 Wednesday Nov 2015

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“In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.”

Hypatia

On the 1st of July, I decided to set up a professional group on LinkedIn in order to create a hype free Agora for Big Data dialogue. I called the group The Big Data Contrarians and although it is a closed group, all those with interest in an open, informed and honest exchange of ideas on data, from whatever angle they are coming from, are very welcome to join in. (URL:  http://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=8338976)

So, why is the group called The Big Data Contrarians and not something more generic, such as The Data Contrarians?

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