When you believe that the data your have in your computer system is more messed up than the data in everyone else system.
I've got Data Guilt. I'm embarrassed every time I run a report. I'm afraid to ask my team to clean up our Salesforce - our data is so much worse than the customer service system's data.
by malsmith June 12, 2015
Get the Data Guiltmug. also Data-blight
The systemic propagation and entrenchment of inaccurate or corrupted personal data across interconnected digital or bureaucratic ecosystems, resulting in material, social, or psychological harm to the affected individual.
In essence, data blight describes how a falsehood, once digitized and networked, acquires bureaucratic immortality. It exposes the fragility of “truth” in algorithmic governance, where records outrank lived reality.
This phenomenon occurs when erroneous information originating in one data source is automatically replicated, shared, or revalidated by other institutions—often through automated data exchange, identity verification, or algorithmic matching—creating a self-reinforcing web of falsehoods. Like biological blight, it spreads through interdependence, exploiting weak governance, poor data hygiene, and the absence of effective correction mechanisms.
Example: An error in one government database—such as misrecording a single person as a married cohabitant—can cascade through banking, taxation, and utilities systems, effectively rewriting the individual’s administrative identity and generating real-world consequences including denial of services, legal misclassification, or reputational harm.
The systemic propagation and entrenchment of inaccurate or corrupted personal data across interconnected digital or bureaucratic ecosystems, resulting in material, social, or psychological harm to the affected individual.
In essence, data blight describes how a falsehood, once digitized and networked, acquires bureaucratic immortality. It exposes the fragility of “truth” in algorithmic governance, where records outrank lived reality.
This phenomenon occurs when erroneous information originating in one data source is automatically replicated, shared, or revalidated by other institutions—often through automated data exchange, identity verification, or algorithmic matching—creating a self-reinforcing web of falsehoods. Like biological blight, it spreads through interdependence, exploiting weak governance, poor data hygiene, and the absence of effective correction mechanisms.
Example: An error in one government database—such as misrecording a single person as a married cohabitant—can cascade through banking, taxation, and utilities systems, effectively rewriting the individual’s administrative identity and generating real-world consequences including denial of services, legal misclassification, or reputational harm.
That error in the Electoral Register has come up again. I'm data blighted and my bank has frozen my accounts.
by APedant October 28, 2025
Get the Data Blightmug. Thick data is qualitative information that provides insights into the everyday emotional lives of consumers. It goes beyond big data to explain why consumers have certain preferences, the reasons they behave the way they do, why certain trends stick and so on.
Data scientist 1: so what did u do this weekend?
Data scientist 2: dude, I've been running some regressions on this data set. My dataset so thick bro! Wanna see? (Pulls out laptop)
Data scientist 1: dayum son, dat data thicc tho! I'd run regressions on dat all night.
Data scientist 2: I actually did. My laptop has slow processing speed. It takes several hours to process thick data.
Data scientist 2: dude, I've been running some regressions on this data set. My dataset so thick bro! Wanna see? (Pulls out laptop)
Data scientist 1: dayum son, dat data thicc tho! I'd run regressions on dat all night.
Data scientist 2: I actually did. My laptop has slow processing speed. It takes several hours to process thick data.
by benyafox January 11, 2020
Get the Thick datamug. The confident energy emitted by businesses harnessing their big data (large quantities of incoming and outgoing data) through data analytics & visualization and don't have to tell anyone about it. The energy speaks for itself. The big D energy tells its own story of bold, informed decisions. Every business strives for big D energy. Only a few possess such a gift. Businesses with big D energy possess qualities such as a competitive advantage, stickiness, being future-proof, and having the ability to easily pinpoint their pain points and monetize their data.
Wow, that business has Big Data Energy and is flourishing, because its management makes real-time, informed decisions. They must have Big D Insights dashboards!
by OQLIS February 3, 2023
Get the Big Data Energymug. An entity (i.e. person or machine) which uses data they do not have permission to use, in a way that is malicious and/or exploitative.
by pseudonick5000 July 9, 2018
Get the Data Banditmug. A tech sector Venture Capitalist who stuffs their little piggy faces on people's private information until their little piggie overall buttons pop off their engorged little piggy bodies.
A data piggy out of Silicon Valley invested in my favorite app and now they're following me across the web, slopping up all of my private information.
by Notadatapiggy September 12, 2024
Get the Data Piggymug. Data Runs is a Kid on xbox who's known to Doxxing and swatting and Sims swapping and many DDos attacks on Bo2
by Imifk.onxbox September 6, 2022
Get the Data Runsmug.