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.
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