20 Sat Dec 2014
Posted in Big Data, Data governance, Data Warehousing
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Martyn Richard Jones
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!
From the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Big Data is dead! Long live Information Management. Continue reading
09 Tue Dec 2014
Posted in Big Data, Marty does
Martyn Richard Jones
2026 Remaster
HERE WE GO WITH BIG DATA VIBESClive: Yeah, well, you had to, didn’t you? You had to stand up for what you stood for, didn’t you? I mean, the only time I remember a similar occasion was, I was in, errm… I was at Spurs, Tottenham Hotspurs.
Derek: Yeah.
Clive: I was watching a game against Arsenal, and this bloke come up to me and said, “Hello”.
Derek: Oh no…
Derek and Clive – This Bloke Came Up to Me Continue reading
03 Wed Dec 2014
Posted in consider, Consider this, data science, Polemic, statistics
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Big Data, BS, Consider this, data analysts, data science, Data Warehouse, enterprise data warehousing, statisticians, statistics
Statistics is a science. Some argue that it is the oldest of sciences. It can be traced back in history to the days of Augustus Caesar, and before.
In 1998, Lynn Billard wrote a paper that laid out the role of the Statistician and Statistics. She stated that “no science began until man mastered the concepts and arts of counting, measuring, and weighting”.[1]
Continue reading03 Mon Nov 2014
Posted in Ask Martyn, Best principles, Data governance
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Big Data, Business, business intelligence, data governance, data management, Data protection, Data Warehouse, privacy, Strategy
There was a time, Martyn Richard Jones
When absolute discretion was an essential maxim in the relationship between a liberal professional (doctor, banker, solicitor, architect, etc.) and their clients, but times have changed. They are continuing to transform at an ever-increasing pace.
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26 Sun Oct 2014
Posted in Analytics, Architecture, Ask Martyn, awareness, Big Data, BS, deceit, governance, Stories
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awareness, Behavioural Economics, Big Data, BS, crap, data analytics, deceit, enterprise data warehousing, history, hustlers, IT business, lies, Organisational Autism, Pimps, spin
Written by Martyn Richard Jones
What does Big Data have to do with Robitussin?
I will explain.
14 Tue Oct 2014
Posted in Architecture, Assets, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Management, Value
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Big Data, Business, business intelligence, Data Marts, enterprise data warehousing, hadoop, information management, knowledge, knowledge management, Risk Management
In the dim and distant past most organisations struggled along with what they euphemistically referred to as Information Systems.
They were Information Systems with no overall design, no elements of management and no architecture.
Information Systems were built to show how the company had been performing in the immediate past, and that was it. Continue reading
12 Sun Oct 2014
Posted in Architecture, Ask Martyn, Banking, Best principles, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Creativity, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Knowledge, Peeves
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Banking, Behavioural Economics, Big Data, Bill Inmon, business intelligence, data integration, Data Marts, Demagogism, Dogma, enterprise data warehousing, hadoop, Information and Technology, information management
This weekend I read a piece on the Information Management website by Steve Miller with the title of Big Data vs. the Data Warehouse. It’s an old piece, from March 2014.
It was in response to a piece by Bill Inmon titled “Big Data or Data Warehouse?” Turbocharge Your Porsche – Buy an Elephant, in which he singled out for criticism the ad campaign of a big-data and Hadoop promoter.
11 Sat Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, BS, Data Warehouse, disinformation, information, Knowledge, wisdom
Martyn Richard Jones
Remaster for 2026
I am a sceptic. Part of the awkward squad of troublemakers.
People who ask questions and who won’t stop asking.
People who won’t take bullshit for an answer.
People who are not preprogrammed to unquestioningly follow specific paths.
But to question everything.
Such as, “What the feck’s that all about then?” Continue reading
10 Fri Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Management
Martyn Richard Jones
A remake for 2026
Sometimes I get asked in to support the manager of a failing project.
Most of the time I get to take over a failing project, with or without the previous manager’s involvement.
Occasionally I am called in to act as a Project Manager for clients who have brought in Systems Integrators and Management Consultants to do most of the project work.
10 Fri Oct 2014
Posted in Ask Martyn, awareness, Best principles, Big Data, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse
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Big Data, business intelligence, Commercial IT, Corporate IT, Data Warehouse, IT business, IT Strategy, Pimps, Pundits
The IT business suffers a malaise, it also affects other businesses. In IT, like in other lines of business, much of what has been made is eventually sidelined and forgotten. If it was ever on the radar in the first place. Continue reading
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