data nerd

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.

by tautologist August 5, 2016

data dictionary

A data dictionary is (generally) a read-only set of tables and views that holds metadata - used in a database management system. The data dictionary may be considered a database in its own right.

Amongst other things, a Data Dictionary holds the following information:

*Usernames, Roles and Privileges
*Schema Objects
*Integrity Constraints
*Stored procedures and Triggers
*General Database Structure
*Audit information
*Space allocations

One benefit of a well prepared data dictionary is a consistency between data items across different tables.

several tables may hold telephone numbers, using a data dictionary the format of this telephone number field will be consistent.

by Maxis4132 April 3, 2005

Datamandering

The act of manipulating the definitions of your data post-hoc to take advantage of outliers or other positive abnormal results.

Manager: Our sales this month were horrible!
Analyst: But if you just circle this area here, or highlight this product- look, it's not so bad!
Manager: But our sales still sucked. You're just datamandering.

by Totovader April 28, 2009

Data Modeling

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.

Without the proper supplies (multiple colors of highlighters) the fine art of data modeling would be impossible.

by 26@65 June 29, 2009

data orienteering

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.

by Terrible Tadpole June 3, 2010

Data orgy

A hard drive party with the purpose of swapping data between friends and consensual adults.

"Hey bro, you going to the data orgy tonight?"
"Ya, dude. There's going to be so many big hard drives. I hope I don't get a virus!"

by MrEhron March 6, 2014

Datahog

Mean name for neighbor who takes advantage of your home's guest wifi and causes you too pay a ton of money for it.

Tony! You datahog get your ass off my WiFi!

by Diplitmitgit November 19, 2016