Tag Archives: data

The Exciting World of Data

Posted on September 30, 2016 by way0utwest

I was honored to have the chance to give the keynote at SQL Saturday #520 in Cambridge this year. This was a quick keynote, and it was fast. I didn’t record it, but people seemed to enjoy it, and I … Continue reading →

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Opening Up Data

Posted on May 12, 2015 by way0utwest

Tim O’Reilly has been an advocate of open data access and standards for some time, especially from governments. He’s pushed for more interoperability and certainly more accessability from all sorts of groups. He gave an interview earlier this year to LinuxVoice where … Continue reading →

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Data Lakes

Posted on January 11, 2015 by way0utwest

I heard a new phrase this week: the data lake. It comes from a Radar Podcast episode where Edd Dumbill talks about data as an asset that should be exposed everywhere in an organization. There’s a blog post on the subject as well. The … Continue reading →

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Deleting Data

Posted on December 18, 2014 by way0utwest

Like Tim Berners-Lee, I find the “right to be forgotten” law in Europe to be dangerous. The tremendous growth of data in our world means that searches become increasingly important in order for us to find data. If data is removed … Continue reading →

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