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Podcast Episode: Building A Data Logistics Hub

25 Tuesday Aug 2026

Posted by in Architecture, data architecture, Data governance, data hub, data management, data mesh, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing

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Futuristic data center labeled Central Logistics Hub, with glowing data routes, servers, and operators
Glowing data pathways weave through a multi-level logistics hub filled with servers and operators.

Pip: If you have ever looked at your organisation’s data landscape and thought “this resembles a motorway junction designed by someone who hates drivers,” then Martyn Jones has a blueprint with your name on it.

Mara: This episode follows a series of posts introducing the Data Logistics Hub — covering what the concept is, why the pain points are real, how strategy and architecture hold it together, and what the actual components look like in practice.

Pip: Let’s start with the foundations — what the hub is and why it exists.

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Podcast Episode: DATA WORLD: The Truth About Data Lakehouses: Hype vs. Reality – 2026/01/18

25 Tuesday Aug 2026

Posted by in agile@scale, All Data

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A modern waterfront campus comes alive beneath a glowing sunset over the lake.

Pip: Good strategy, they say, means knowing when the pitch is real and when it’s a brochure with ambitions. Martyn Jones has been stress-testing that distinction — and today we’re looking at what happens when data architecture meets vendor enthusiasm.

Mara: This episode covers one substantial territory: data lakehouses — the claim, the reality, and the gap between them that organisations are quietly discovering in production.

Pip: Let’s get into it.

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Podcast Episode: Data Mesh Under Fire

25 Tuesday Aug 2026

Posted by in data architecture, Data governance, data hub, Data Lake, data management, data mesh, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, deep learning

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Pip: Good Strategy Rebellion — where the sacred cows of enterprise tech get a proper going-over. Today we’re deep in the data wars, asking whether the industry’s favourite architectural revolution is actually a revolution, or just the same old chaos in a new lanyard.

Mara: Martyn Jones has been writing about exactly that — covering the case against Data Mesh, what it means for how organisations actually govern and use their data, and why the rational data warehouse keeps refusing to stay dead.

Pip: Let’s start with the bonfire.

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Rethinking Data Systems: A Call for Accountability

24 Monday Aug 2026

Posted by in dark data, data architecture, Data governance, data hub, Data Lake, data management, data mesh, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing

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Pip: Good Strategy Rebellion — where the sacred cows of Silicon Valley come to be skewered, preferably with footnotes.

Mara: Today we’re in the territory Martyn Jones has been carving out: a full-scale critique of data architecture hype, the case against fashionable frameworks, and a defence of the unglamorous systems that actually work.

Pip: Coherence over chaos, basically. Let’s start with the bonfire.

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GS PODCAST: Uncovering Tax Evasion: Insights from ‘Revealing Wealth’ – Book Review

22 Saturday Aug 2026

Posted by in technology, The Guardian, The hidden wealth of nations

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Pip: Hidden fortunes, opaque shell companies, and the quiet question of why governments with access to the most powerful data tools in history still can’t … or won’t… track where the money goes. That’s the territory Martyn Jones has been mapping.

Mara: This episode follows his work on tax evasion, financial transparency, and the case that this is fundamentally a data problem… and that the tools to solve it already exist. Let’s start with the book at the centre of it all.

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IT’S POLITICS: Uncovering Tax Evasion: Insights from ‘Revealing Wealth’ – Book Review

22 Saturday Aug 2026

Posted by in Inform, educate and entertain., offshore, Offshoring

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IT’S POLITICS: Uncovering Tax Evasion: Insights from ‘Revealing Wealth’ – Book Review

Madrid, Monday 9th March 2026

Book Review: Revealing Wealth: Combatting Tax Evasion with Data, Political Will and Technology by Martyn Jones

In an age defined by algorithms, trillion-dollar tech companies, and data flowing across borders at the speed of light, one of the oldest problems in civilisation persists: how the wealthy avoid paying their share of tax. In Revealing Wealth, Martyn Jones argues that the real scandal is not simply that tax evasion exists, but that in a data-rich world we still allow it to thrive.

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