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.

data orienteering by Terrible Tadpole June 3, 2010

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orienteering

The act of going down on a girl who doesn't take care of her pubic hair.

Man, going down on her last night was nasty, I had to go orienteering.

orienteering by Leslie February 27, 2005

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orienteering

another word for getting lost, you go out in a field with a damp map and you have to find stupid numbers that people have changed so we get it wrong

"yo dude, we got orienteering next"
"yeah i know, you comin' down the chippy then?"

orienteering by P5y/\/\()/\/ July 3, 2007

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Sexual orienteering

Equal opportunity copulatory rampage. A series of sex acts with men and women alike.

It was a fuckfest of sexual orienteering: getting from A to B, encompassing as much C and D as they could along the way.

Sexual orienteering by ragnar hairy breeches December 1, 2018

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