To start with a small piece of data which you use to find a bigger piece of data, similar to using a minnow to catch a mackerel in 'actual' fishing.
Someone used my Social Insurance number for data phishing and now i have a bunch of bogus credit card charges in my name.
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The act of browsing Facebook profiles for the viewing pleasure of an attractive person of the opposite sex.
Hey bro, I was data mining earlier and found some pics of this hawt chick.
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Data lake, is commonly used for describing a large-scale tool where multiple data sources from different types of systems are fed in and parsed in pre-defined methods.
However, it is also quite common to see where incompetent peeps use when they do not understand a dime about data or data-science. Since it is not publicly well studied or understood area, some peeps use this 'term' to fool non-technical executives to extend their own projects.
A: "We will build a massive data lake, analyze everything from all the sensors with AI on the fly, orchestrate all the processes and automate everything and everyone's tasks"
B: Oh, that's nice. So you can hand in your resignation next year after delivering this project.
A: Ups. That was a nice outcome.
A collection of Porn, generally stored on a PC or optical medium such as CD/DVD.
Businessman: "Hey, I've got a lonely business trip coming up...have you got anything that might keep me entertained?"
Office Youth: "Hell yeah! I've got some panda data that will make you bust a nut!"
Modern day version of Big Brother. Online searches, store purchases, Facebook posts, Tweets or Foursquare check-ins, cell phone usage, etc. is creating a flood of data that, when organized and categorized and analyzed, reveals trends and habits about ourselves and society at large.
Search engines and marketing companies have gathered and sorted 90% of all information on our habits ever created by our species in just the past 2 years and 10% of all photographs taken in the history of cameras and videos where taken in 2011 all from the electronic devices which we are either unable or unwilling to live without.
Girl: Hey did you see those crazy photos I posted on Facebook? Sexy, right?
Boy: No.
Girl: No? I tweeted them and sexted them to you too.
Boy: I'm trying to stay off the grid.
Girl: What on Earth for?!
Boy: Because Big Data is watching, that's why, and I don't I don't want the government knowing my business!
Girl: You're weird.
Boy: And you're just another rat in the maze.
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A person working in data that happens to be large in stature, chubby or portly.
They call Pat, Big Data for his girth and Microsoft Excel skills.
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An individual whose primary task is to enter data into spread sheets. Starring at a computer, without leaving your cubical all day.
My wife is a slave to her job; she works late and the kids don't even recognize her. she's such a data whore.
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