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. by Justin R.😉 July 29, 2013
Get the mental for orientalmug. by Pete Cray June 23, 2016
Get the Oriental Positionmug. by w_f_B March 16, 2004
Get the leyton orientmug. When you cum across both of a girls eyes and she gets made and uses both hands to wipe the cum off and stretches her eyes like a oriental person
by MyFullName September 20, 2009
Get the Angry Orientalmug. anything directly related to, referring to, hinting at, or carrying the essence and brilliance of clay aiken.
jan spends hours every night surfing the web for AIKEN-ORIENTED websites and photographs. she obsesses over buying every magazine that is the slightest bit AIKEN-ORIENTED, even if it only remotely states his name in reference! during creative writing class, jan prides herself in writing lengthy conceits only about AIKEN-ORIENTED lusts and dreams.
by the clayluvers... jonah and jenn April 9, 2004
Get the aiken-orientedmug. The Pearl of the Orient holds the best looking folk in the Orient. Want proof Google this PHILIPPINES: THE PEARL OF THE ORIENT
by Starbuck Drinker January 4, 2009
Get the Pearl of the Orientmug.