Datarat

Data hoarder

That datarat owns 15TB of hard storage already and its still not enough!

by DATARAT June 25, 2024

Data Sonification

The process of translating quantitative data (numbers, measurements) into non-speech audio, using sound parameters like pitch, volume, tempo, and timbre to represent different variables. It turns spreadsheets into symphonies, allowing patterns, trends, and anomalies in datasets to be perceived through the human ear, which can sometimes detect subtle rhythms and shifts that the eye might miss in a graph.

Data Sonification Example: A climate scientist sonifies 100 years of Arctic temperature data, mapping each year to a note. Rising temperatures cause a slow, creeping rise in pitch. The listener hears a haunting, accelerating upward glissando over the century, making the abstract trend of global warming viscerally, emotionally audible in a way a line chart often isn't.

by Dumu The Void February 4, 2026

Datamine

Written, Video, or Audio based content that is dense with relevant knowledge or information.

"This Video's a Datamine." "This new book I'm reading is such a Datamine." "What kind of podcast do you like? I mostly listen to datamines."

by NexusLitter February 8, 2026

datageddon

When a company gets hacked and IT is forced to shut down systems, networks, and data access to contain the breach, bringing normal operations to a sudden halt. Often accompanied by panic emails, locked accounts, and employees realizing how dependent everything is on data systems.

Email is down, the network drives are offline, and IT just told everyone to disconnect from Wi-Fi — welcome to datageddon.

by Munchieman5150 March 9, 2026

Data Science Applied to AI

The engineering and methodological discipline of preparing, cleaning, analyzing, and governing the data that powers artificial intelligence. It recognizes that AI models are only as good as the data they're trained on. This field focuses on the entire data pipeline: sourcing high-quality data, removing bias, ensuring privacy, and managing the massive datasets required to train modern AI. It's the unglamorous but absolutely essential grunt work that makes the magic happen.

Data Science Applied to AI Example: "The model kept failing, and they realized it was a data science applied to AI problem—the training data was full of duplicates and errors they'd never bothered to clean."

by Dumu The Void March 11, 2026

Data Piggy

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

data miner

A person who hangs out with you because you're "smart," "cracked," or just useful. Basically their personal ChatGPT. Where gold diggers realistically can only dig a few romantic partners at a time, a data miner can get away with mining dozens of people.

Commonly found at UWaterloo.

Kevin: "Emily just texted me for the first time all semester... asking for my notes."
Raj: "Did she even say hi?"
Kevin: "Nope. Straight to business. Classic data miner."

by califctn February 12, 2025