A common military term which is applied when someone asks a stupid question that deserves a stupid answer. ROMA stands for "right out my ass" - the source for the data that is shared to answer the stupid question.
Question: What is the average casualty rate for domesticated animals during your bombing campaigns?
Answer: Well, the ROMA data suggests that there is approximately a 30% casualty rate.
Answer: Well, the ROMA data suggests that there is approximately a 30% casualty rate.
by AnEnglishmanInNewYork June 23, 2009
Get the ROMA Datamug. 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
Get the big dataedmug. 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
Get the Data Rotmug. 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
Get the Data Dumpmug. 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
Get the data nerdmug. 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
Get the data orienteeringmug. 1- The process of controlled highlighting of individual lines or sections (where applicable) of a manifest, work order, excel files, etc to sub-group and/or categorize specific sections from multiple groups in order to provide a more visual representation of how specific data is modeled and what belongs to a specific subgroup.
2- A Professional Highlighting technique passed through the generations to people in the circle of trust.
3- Professional highlighting services.
4- Skilled highlighting of data to differentiate from other data.
2- A Professional Highlighting technique passed through the generations to people in the circle of trust.
3- Professional highlighting services.
4- Skilled highlighting of data to differentiate from other data.
Without the proper supplies (multiple colors of highlighters) the fine art of data modeling would be impossible.
by 26@65 June 29, 2009
Get the Data Modelingmug.