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feels like there was a missed opportunity to just call it "regular data" instead of "small data"

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but most data, regardless of size, is highly irregular
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@apocheir I was considering "normal data" but that also has its own connotations!
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allison
@scott_bot true. and i'd prefer for lilliputian data to refer to like... microfilm. so small!
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allison
@sohan there's a joke in here about Clifford Geertz something something "dummy thicc description" something but I can't figure it out
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ranjit
@rusty fun size data

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@ranjit @rusty fun size, regular size, king size, and "i made a katamari of all the candy bars I could find"

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@rusty i shoplifted some of every kind of candy in the world to feed to my Large Wonka Model and now you can ask it for anything you crave

(but it always gives you something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a Snickers bar)

in reply to allison

workaday data

common data

vanilla data

plebeian data

typical data

ununusual data

beige data