Data Modeling

1- The process of controlled highlighting of individual lines or sections (where applicable) of a manifest, work order, excel files, etc to sub-group and/or categorize specific sections from multiple groups in order to provide a more visual representation of how specific data is modeled and what belongs to a specific subgroup.

2- A Professional Highlighting technique passed through the generations to people in the circle of trust.

3- Professional highlighting services.

4- Skilled highlighting of data to differentiate from other data.

Without the proper supplies (multiple colors of highlighters) the fine art of data modeling would be impossible.

Dead Data

(noun)

1 : (cultural warming) Data that is no longer relevant.

Vogue is dead data.
Louis Vuitton is dead data.

data dictionary

A data dictionary is (generally) a read-only set of tables and views that holds metadata - used in a database management system. The data dictionary may be considered a database in its own right.

Amongst other things, a Data Dictionary holds the following information:

*Usernames, Roles and Privileges
*Schema Objects
*Integrity Constraints
*Stored procedures and Triggers
*General Database Structure
*Audit information
*Space allocations

One benefit of a well prepared data dictionary is a consistency between data items across different tables.

several tables may hold telephone numbers, using a data dictionary the format of this telephone number field will be consistent.

data orienteering

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.

dating data

( considering that a person is on more than 1 dating sites ast

( noun): the amount of physical space as well as data being used by all the combined dating apps on your phone

( verb): dating exclusively online instead of in a combination of online/real life

If you are going to be dating data, definition b), you are either afraid of a findom sugar baby or you have completely lost contact with reality, or you may be suffering a severe case of social anxiety

Data Junkie

In a test lab environment, the Slave Master to the Data Monkeys. The Data Junkie will typically assign to his Data Monkeys, the chore of running endless tests that could take days or weeks that will produce a plethora of data that is used to overwhelm upper management, co-workers, techology partners, and customers.

Data Junkies also tend to spend long periods of time composing large emails that contain a lot of Copy and Pasting from various email threads. Because the Copy and Pasted emails are actually attachments {that also contain embedded attachments}, there is no logical organization of the data, which causes the email recipients to either not read the email or to spend days attempting to digest and get the information mentally organized. Typical email sizes from Data Junkies tend to run in the megabytes and clog Inboxes.

This tactic can achieve two purposes:
1. In a company where there is a hostile inter-departmental political war between departments and the Data Junkie is in the hot seat, this tactic can be used to stun the aggressor to back off because the aggressor has to sift through the pile of data, and the aggressor doesn't have the time.

This diffuses the situation and buys the Data Junkie Time.

2. The endless amount of overwhelming data can also be used to dazzle upper management and to dazzle clueless hostile customers. In a customer service environment, this technique moves the focus from the customer problem to talking about the overwhelming data, which will calm the customer down.

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data squirrel

Someone who keeps every bit of electronic data that passes through their computer/phone. They archive every email, store electronic copies of utility bills, and save every photograph of every relative's kid ever taken.

An electronic version of a pack rat.

Dude, you are a total data squirrel. Seriously. You do not need to archive text messages. You need hoarding therapy.

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