William H. Inmon (born 1945) is an American computer scientist, recognized by many as the father of the data warehouse. Inmon wrote the first book, held the first conference (with Arnie Barnett), wrote the first column in a magazine and was the first to offer classes in data warehousing. Inmon created the accepted definition of what a data warehouse is - a subject-oriented, nonvolatile, integrated, time-variant collection of data in support of management's decisions. Compared with the approach of the other pioneering architect of data warehousing, Ralph Kimball, Inmon's approach is often characterized as a top-down approach.   

00:00 Intro 

01:17 From failed Golf Career to a Computing one  

03:06 Originality, Patterns & Database Design 

04:37 Punch Cards, Magnetic Tapes, Fortran, Cobalt & Bits in IBM 1401s 

11:16 First Book with Arnie Barnett, First Conference & Peer Pressure from Vendors  

14:26 Winning over Marketing & Sales People vs IT Departments 

18:15 Rise & Fall of IBM, Arrogance, Rudeness & Apathetic Company  

20:04 Prism Solutions & Early Days of Data Warehousing, Dormant Data & Textual ETL 

30:20 Corporate Information Factory, DataMarts & ETL 

32:00 Inmon vs Kimball Approach of Data Architecture, Good, Bad & the Worse 

36:15 Data Reliability with Data Marts vs Centralised Data Warehouse  

39:00 Staging Area in Kimball System vs Vetting the Data   

41:00 Metadata, Beethoven & Importance of Metadata, 

45:00 Prolific Writing, Family of Writers & Edgar Allan Poe. Hated Writing in College 

48:51 Writing Course at Stanford, Fiction & Technical Communication  

51:16 Fiction Published Work & Posthumous Publishing 

57:03 ELT vs ETL, Data Needs Work. Computing Power and Data Transformation 

01:01:31 Big Data, Data Creation Speed & Future of Data Warehousing 

01:04:06 Textual ETL, MIT Symposium & Text Data Utilisation Algorithms, Medical Research & COVID 19  

01:13:45 Transformers, NLP, Graph Learning & Unfair Criticism & Animosity 

01:23:56 Dotcom Bubble, Gartner’s Hype Curve, Theranos and Deception 

01:29:45 Venture Capitalists are not Smart People, they are Rich People.  

01:35:31 Cloud Computing vs Local DWHs 

01:38:06 Databricks vs Snowflake 

01:42:03 Not a Book Reader, Carving your Own Path 

01:45:56 Travelling to 59 Countries, Experiencing Culture & Interesting Interactions 

01:50:00 From California to Colorado, Nature in the Rockies & Life  

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