The story

I had different work espiriences with big data and data analysis and so I describe it with tea. This is a personal rant and I will use some personal experience with tea for describe some experiences about data management.

Industrial Unamed Tea - Excel file

We don’t need to make analisys

Boss

THE big data for the NEWEST company. You can only use .xls, .xlsx e .csv file for it. Sometime you can use some advance system as Google Sheet or Excel 360. For make an analisys you need one-two month for one result. Any time you make an analisys you need to redo all the things. This is the oldest thing to do for make an analisys.

This is a industrial tea, the one you can find in all the pubs. Many time is a ultra low cost leamon tea and you only drink it because you are so sick that you only can drink this or water. If you are not sick you will not drink it because it taste only like leamon not tea.

Named Tea - Axcess db

You know what you want but you don’t know how to get it

the marketing guy

You have an idea of what you want, you have a tool look like the right one but is too ‘80 maybe ‘90. Sometime this is the good tool but many, many time this is the obsolete one.

As a named tea. You are using because you allways used it or because your family/company allways used it and you never search for an alternative.

This one is where you have some space for progress for the big data

Assam Black Tea - Generic DB with Web app

We start in a good way but this is a generic solution

A Good IT guy

This is a generic tea, a good tea but a generic tea. And the web app with the db is also a generic web app. This is a good solution for start and for some medium plan or some long plan but, when you become a “big guy” you maybe need something more ad hoc

Jasmin Perl White Tea - Custom tailor-made app

We fit perfectly, right?

The beta tester

WE have the money and WE have the idea so WE build a software or WE pay someone how can build it and will be perfect. Like the Jasmin Perl. A Perferc tea for a perfect break.

It will work like a clockworking machine, ticking when it must tick and make all you need but you need to understand how to use it.

Like the tea. You need to know how much time it needs and how much hot or cold must be the water for the tea you want.

Cha no yu - Deep Thought

And here is where you will find also hot coco and biscuit

The guide showing your software

It is a work of art made from one or more master. It look like a divine thing. It cost something like the GDP of a little african state.

And we have only the question: “We realy need it?”

Sometime you can find the Boss/CEO/The Big Guy showing it to the guess because it was the Masterpiece

So?

You need to size your software/tea for your break-time/job and not go oversize because it is only a loss of money for nothing. If you can make a on-shot, a taste of the product make it but understand that the price is not how good is the product for your case