10 Data Definitions you haven't heard yet
So I have been trying hard to do lots more reading and catching up recently. Can't be a great Data Management Professional unless I know what is happening in the data world. And I have come across some words and thoughts that have made me consider I could try and put a short glossary together. Very much in the style of Jon Evans (for those of you who haven't heard of him, Jon is defining an Urban Data Dictionary - really good fun!).
Some of these phrases are quite new but appropriate. And if you think you invented them first, then let me know! I will attribute them to you!
- Data Saturation: the state at which you have so much data in your organisation that every possible source is already running over and you have had to throw more hardware at it and you still can't keep up with the flow! The word "copious" comes to mind
- Data Delinquency: your data is behaving like a teenager. It dresses how it wants, disregards all the rules of the house and has more moods than a mood ring. You can't wait for it to grow up
- Data Mutilation: your data seems to take great delight in showing up damaged or chopped in half or having changed it's structure. It takes a homicide detective and his team ages to find the murderer
- Data Deviation: you are looking at your data and the results you are expecting to see are just not there. They have deviated into something completely different. Trying to figure out what happened is driving you crazy
- Data Colloquialism: the use of words such as thingy or stuff to explain your data values. As in "Have you seen the report thingy this morning? That stuff we have to send to the CEO seems a bit strange"
- Data Mirage: this term describes that feeling that in the far distance you can see the data you want, like water on the road when you are thirsty and driving but as you get closer, it just disappears and you are left with what was there in the first place
- Data Desert: Somewhat similar to "data mirage" but much drier. Chances are that there wasn't any data in the first place. Could also be used as past tense - data deserted ...
- Data Quickstep: This is the dance move that you constantly make when trying to get your data to perform the way you want it. Is also used to describe the sheer amount of work required to find the data you want, massage it into the structure you want, collate it into the report you want and then explain to the boss why it took so long
- Data Mooning: No this is not about naked data, but rather about the way you sit and stare into the distance, mooning over what great data you could have, if only ...
- Data Schism: The state of the organisation about it's data. Much more interesting term than "data silos"
So here are ten to start with! I'm interested to see what else my colleagues can come up with?
Let's just keep it clean!
Chief Data Officer @ Modelware Systems | CDMP Master | Data Management Advisor
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9 年ADD - Asynchronous Data Disasters - When the data maturity of different parts of your organisation is at vastly different stages
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9 年I'm considering adding in Data Disgust - the feeling u get when u first see the state of a dataset and know U are responsible for fixing!