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Data Gerrymandering

Intentionally changing what the data actually show to fit a claim furthering an agenda. Anytime someone ignores, suppresses, or alters findings, results, data or statistics to fit their agenda. This could be media skewing a graph to hype fear (ex. of violent crime, drug use), politicians ignoring data needed to accurately assess a policy (ex. Lead in the water), social scientists beefing up a study's results to be published, companies claiming a product is safe (ex. Pharmaceutical clinical trials), and everyday users of Twitter who offer a "poll" to show what 'everyone' thinks.
The graph showing the increase in violent crime nationwide was obvious data gerrymandering because the statistics were only taken from the cities with populations over 1 million.

The Senator was gerrymandering data when he said that giving ex-felons the right to vote would mean all the convicted terrorists will be able to cast a ballot.
by Gerry Mandered Data October 11, 2018
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[DATA EXPUNGED]

used by the scp foundation in articles or reports. DATA EXPUNGED means the data was deleted from all records while Redacted means you need a higher clearance level to view the information.
The data recovered from the artifact shows that DATA EXPUNGED. research halted on order of the overseer council.
by [DATA EXPUNGED] May 29, 2019
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data scientist

Something like a business analyst who writes code, a hacker with social skills, or a software engineer that knows math.
Also just someone management has decided is a "data scientist".
Even though I am a data scientist, I don't think it's specific enough to describe what I do.
by cinf May 6, 2020
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data entry

A form of torture invented by the devil especially to punish Arts Graduates.
Robert graduated from York with a 2:1 in sociology and ended up with a job which consisted largely of data entry for his sins
by robuttt September 29, 2006
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data monkey

One whose job requires the use of no more than: (a) two fingers with which to achieve a succession of keystrokes enabling the individual to cut data from one source and simply paste it into another; (b) two brain cells which are mainly used to do google searches and send emails to other data monkeys.
CTRL-C; CTRL-V; CTRL-C; CTRL-V (repeat ad infinitum)
by Ilovemyjob November 15, 2004
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data whorehouse

(Derived from the term "data warehouse".)

A computer storage system that contains lots of private data about people who are paid (usually with some kind of coupon, incentive, rebate, etc.) to give this data over. Businesses pay for access to the data.
I just got a $5 rebate on my wireless router, all I had to do was fill out a consumer survey.

You are a $5 data whore in the data whorehouse.
by data123456 January 21, 2011
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data miner

A person who searches in online games files to find unreleased contents before they are announced.
- Hey dude did you hear about the upcomming patch for League of Legends, they are removing Teemo from the game.

- Wow that's awesome man how did you know that?

- Some data miner datamined the files and found out about whats going to be comming and Teemo was missing.

- LOLOL GOOD I HATE TEEMO
by Teemo hater October 6, 2013
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