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categories:
- Data Science
date: '2023-12-04 14:40:04'
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tags:
- humour
title: Data Swamp
type: posts
url: /2023/12/04/data-swamp/
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<div class="wp-block-indieblocks-like"><div class="u-like-of h-cite"><p><i>Likes <a class="u-url" href="https://snarfed.org/2023-12-03_51578">https://snarfed.org/2023-12-03_51578</a> by <span class="p-author">Ryan Barrett</span>.</i></p></div><div class="e-content"><!-- wp:quote -->
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<p>My dad has spent some of his retirement doing hobbyist machine learning projects. He heard the term “data lake” a while back and has taken to calling his datasets a “data swamp.” Feels like a terminology improvement the whole field could get behind.</p>
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<p>This is brilliant, I've not come across this term before but I could definitely get behind using it to describe data that comes out of customer systems like <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/cleverdevil.io/post/3kfom22ivtf2u">Jonathon says he already does</a> at his workplace.</p>
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