When a person is into data to the point of a sexual fetish. Alternatively, one could define the term as a nerd who really likes statistics.
A: "Here we've got the incidence of the word "photon" in science articles over the course of history."
B: "I'm sorry, is this relatively to all the articles, or is it an absolute number?"
A: "Absolute."
B: "The amount of science articles also grew exponentially, are you sure this graph of yours says anything of substance?"
A: "Fuck off, go be a data nerd somewhere else.
B: "I'm sorry, is this relatively to all the articles, or is it an absolute number?"
A: "Absolute."
B: "The amount of science articles also grew exponentially, are you sure this graph of yours says anything of substance?"
A: "Fuck off, go be a data nerd somewhere else.
by tautologist March 9, 2016
The act of analyzing data in great detail. When you spend hours working on excel or other stats programs trying to 1) figure out data and 2) analyze it. This often occurs while in college, fantasy football, and in careers that focus on research and analysis. On big problems, Data Nerding can go on for days.
Damn, I may never figure out what quarterback to draft for fantasy football. Looks like it's time to pull out excel and get to data nerding so I can decide on who to pick.
by Stoolie December 4, 2013