Expectation is the Root of all Heartache
Expectation is the root of all heartache (William Shakespeare quote) and Hadoop is suffering from some of this. There have
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Hans Rosling RIP
The famous statistician Hans Rosling has died recently. He was known throughout the world for bringing data to life according
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Metadata within the Data Swamp
So I thought it was time to share and collaborate a bit more on my latest book. A brief recap
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Draining the Data Swamp
I’ve had lots of feedback from my previous post and have, based upon these suggestions, decided to call my next book
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Taming the Data Lake
To date I’ve written two books ‘The Enterprise Data Model‘ and ‘Mastering your Data‘. The first has become a best
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The Religion of the Data Scientist
The current euphoria regarding Big Data is focused on the technologies such as Hadoop, visualisation tools and other often open
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The Joy of Data
Great TV programme on the BBC called ‘The Joy of Data’. It gives some insight into the background to the
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The Data Vault, how does it work and what’s it for?
The brains behind the data vault technique, Dan Linstedt, developed the idea in 1990 and released it in 2000 via
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Don’t Drown in the Data Swamp
The data lake is a place that we can store all the organisations data without the restrictions imposed by more
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The Dimensions of Big Data
Everyone is talking about Big Data these days but there is little agreement as to the type of data structure
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