by Bloodymary&me May 7, 2018

Being the target of big data. Doing a Google search for something and then being sent targeted ads for that thing for a month.
She got big dataed, she went to target and got a coupon for a pregnancy test. They knew she was pregnant before she did.
by kmurray42 March 10, 2015

Those reel to reel tape are over 10 years old. We no longer have the equipment to read them. Someone should have put the data on a disk instead of letting it go to Data Rot.
by Robert A. August 12, 2004

Dumping all the information from a class onto the test. Then forgetting when finished with the test or class.
by Kutie butt kerdoodle April 8, 2013

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 August 5, 2016

The process of exploring a data file handed to you without any form of guidance except for a nebulous statement about what you are supposed to do with it - no record layout, no data map, no indication of which columns are relevant to the task at hand. The completeness of the task specification follows the inverse specificity law - the more complex the data and the important the task the less information you are given.
Theary: Hey Bernie. could you extract the customers' discount rates from this file? It's XML so you should just be able to read it off.
Bernie: Sure thing, it it will take some serious data orienteering.
Theary: Okay, I'll let the client know.
Bernie: Sure thing, it it will take some serious data orienteering.
Theary: Okay, I'll let the client know.
by Terrible Tadpole June 3, 2010

by itsmeSpencer December 11, 2016
