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Martyn Richard JonesI have questions about data.Most of us who have more than a cursory knowledge of the English language have heard of the phrase ‘too much…
This is the story of how the amazing Hadoop ecosphere revolutionised IT. If you enjoy it then consider joining The Big Data Contrarians.Before the advent of Hadoop…
Every year I ask myself the same question. Will there be any tangible, coherent and verifiable Big Data success stories in the coming year? Every year I…
The arts and acts of counterfeiting have many manifestations, each with its peculiarities, motivations and modes.There is the well-known counterfeiting of money, precious metals and art, and…
To the layperson anxious for answers to complicated questions, the very idea of bringing together sets of disparate data and turning it into precious insights may seem…
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.Jean-Baptiste Alphonse KarrPrologueI wrote a piece called ‘7 New Big Data Roles for 2015′. I published it on LinkedIn. Many…
Friends, peers and colleagues, lend me your bandwidth and 10 minutes of your time. Gather around and let me tell you about the greatest, most interesting and…
If there were ever a more apt rallying slogan for the Big Data BS babblers it would be “We BS about Big Data so that you don’t…
Listen up Big Data playmates! The ubiquitous Big Data gurus, tied up in their regular chores of astroturfing mega-volumes, velocities and varieties of superficial flim flam, may…
