14 Wed May 2025
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Martyn Richard Jones, Galicia, 14th May 2025.
Remember that old story about Lassie, the Yorkshire collie dog?
And, how Lassie would run across the Scottish highlands, lowlands and Yorkshire moors.
Aww, wasn’t she so cute?
Continue reading27 Fri Sep 2024
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Analytics, cloud, comedy, data, data science, databases, enterprise data warehousing, fiction, humor, information, knowledge, Organisational Autism, short-story, statistics
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.
Continue reading23 Mon Sep 2024
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Physician, heal thyself!
Narrator: Consider this. If the originators, acolytes and sycophants of data mesh hadn’t been so free and easy with how they created and perpetrated technical debt, especially data model and data quality-related technical debt, then we wouldn’t need data mesh to try and get us out of the mess these sloppy developer people put us into in the first place.
Continue reading21 Sat Sep 2024
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Narrator: It doesn’t matter what you are trying to do, or even if you know what you are trying to do, but if in doubt, blame the quality of the data. There was a time when data quality was a massive impediment to business data integration.
Data quality assurance was a glint in IT’s eye. A far-away place that nobody knew how to get to.
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