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New Thinking, Old Thinking and a Fairytale

Peter James Thomas

Of course it can be argued that you can use statistics (and Google Trends in particular) to prove anything [1] , but I found the above figures striking. Feel free to substitute Data Lake for Data Warehouse if you want a more modern vibe, sadly it won’t change the failure statistics. . [5].

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

In our modern architectures, replete with web-services, APIs, cloud-based components and the quasi-instantaneous transmission of new transactions, it is perhaps not surprising that occasionally some data gets lost in translation [5] along the way. I explore some similar themes in a section of Data Visualisation – A Scientific Treatment.

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A Retrospective of 2018’s Articles

Peter James Thomas

Overall the total number of articles and new pages I published exceeded 2017’s figures to claim the second spot behind 2009; our first year in business. These are as follows: General Data Articles. Data Visualisation. Statistics & Data Science. Analytics & Big Data. Data Visualisation.