Dastan

A type of person who is black, keeps yaping, likes to start arguments and is very loud.

Ayo you are such a dastan nigga.

by Skibidimoggernigojidoijafd January 20, 2025

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

Data Male

An individual who is obbesses with statistics and appearing scientific to the point of being shallow, unethical, elitist or short-sighted.

Person 1: Man I got rejected from college.
Person 2: Well its statistically likely of people of your background to be rejected.
Person 1: Dude you're such a data male.

by Slack Yoth February 17, 2025

Dastaning

Being obnoxious and saying racial slurs and regular slurs for no reason at all and overall being a bitch.

Person 1: *Being obnoxious*
Person 2: Stop Dastaning nigger!

by Skibidimoggernigojidoijafd February 20, 2025

DATA SIN

A Swatting group known for swaps in discord.gg/datasin.

data sin swatted over well 90 places in one week.

by .gg/DataSin February 20, 2025

Data and AI Services

Data and AI services

Data and AI services refer to the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics to process, analyze, and utilize data

by Cloudastra March 21, 2025

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