Humanising Data

The premise that charts, tables and graphs are inhumane and the proposition that visualisation systems immerse you in the data in such a way that you can process charts, tables and graphs subconsciously.

Marketing Manager walking to a WIP (work-in-progress) meeting "Oh no, not another meeting pouring over slabs of paper filled with Excel tables and pie charts". Data scientist walking alongside: "Don't worry, we've moved all the reporting into a Humanising Data visualisation system, I think you'll find it very easy to find the data points you're looking for. Manager as they both walk in the meeting room door, looking at the three newly installed large format touch-screens: "Oooh, this is nice".

by CompSciFutures January 12, 2023

data shaming

When someone is ridiculed for taking up an unnecessarily large portion of a shared data plan — ex. a phone family plan, a shared file system at work, etc.

Bridget was subject to data shaming at work after our boss realized she had been hoarding 9 GB of high-resolution photos in her inbox.

by xDrewB November 15, 2017

Data Attic

A low cost environment which is implemented to store data that is no longer used, but must be accessible to meet Service Level Agreements.

Moving a large database from a high cost SAN infrastructure to a low cost, dense, direct attach disk solution or Data Attic.

by storagechick September 23, 2010

data extractor

someone who breathes and lives for data related to the mining, oil and gas sector or collectively known as extractives

my data extractor friend is gagging over the recent batch of EITI country reports

by zmarco October 28, 2019

Data Boys

Data Boys are unemployed Nigerian youths given peanut to promote and defend Governors on various social media platforms.

Irate citizens beat up some alleged data boys for defending bad leadership on Facebook.

by Hassanopy August 27, 2022

Data diet

When you are surfing the web too much every month or week and need to cut down.

Going over your data allowance and getting an $800 bill at the end of the month. You need to go on a data diet

by Shazamder April 22, 2010

data rape

When you give your phone number to someone through an online dating site, and they send lots of multimedia messages, depleting the data on your phone plan.

That guy from plenty of fish sent me memes every time he texted me today, and I've already used 90% of my data- total data rape.

by j monkey August 27, 2015