Crap 'Buzzwords'

A client yesterday, trying to convince me that he was trying to improve his useless controls framework - 'we know we're a brownfield site, not a greenfield site'. And we know you're a twat.

a job description.

It's arsehole speak for, "This is a new role, so you'll have to make it up as you go along while constantly justifying the money we pay you."

yeah i'm out.

I'm working with a whole bunch of your lot at the moment.

On controls...

Every conversation is a copy and paste of this thread.

I received an email today which included a number of the usual clichés, but threw in a number of gems I had not had inflicted on me before: "data lake", "next generation influencing", "the bringing together of separately siloed expertise to drive greater impact", "leveraging our digital touch points".
I feel quite sick.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/23/from-inboxing-to-thought-showers-how-business-bullshit-took-over

'Scrollytelling'
You want the website to do what?

Someone here keeps talking about 'socialising' documents. We are sharing them or sending them, not taking them out for a beer and a curry.

Like with puppies, introducing them to other docs? Sorry, dogs.

Is that different from 'syndicating' them which I have also heard?

Sometimes novel concepts do need a name and perhaps 'data lake' is one of these. It means a great big... er... pool of all an organisation's data, but the important bit is that it contains unstructured data as well as structured data.

As opposed to 'data warehouse', or even 'great big database' which imply an overall structure. I'm reminded of EU food surpluses being described as 'butter mountains' and 'milk lakes'.

Reading Wikipedia to check where it originated, I'm amused by:

A data swamp is a deteriorated data lake, that is inaccessible to its intended users and provides little value.

Having just edited a 15,000-word document on data standards and schemas, I'm thinking that I should go back and drop these in.

bit late on this but just catching up.
Very much this the better half was saying she has a town hall every week and this was exactly what i thought of.

We use the term like that as it is important to differentiate between data in a native format and data we have integrated. you could of course call it raw vs standardised tho.

Raw vs pasteurised?

hygge.

As in the Danish word 'hygge'?

My god I just googled it. Had no idea it's become an Anglo-Saxon buzzword. How do people use it?

They use it as a borrowed 'untranslatable' term to describe a supposed concept of cosiness and warmth that's core to the Danish character.

I find it slightly weird when people in continental Europe use the term "Anglo-Saxon" to lump together British and American culture. Do you include AUS/NZ in that? I used to read it all the time in the French and German media when I lived there.

On the ground'. NO! Your reporter is 'there' or 'on location', he's not stoned out of his skull or shot through the head and lying in a gutter.

"Anglo-Saxon"

No idea really. I suppose it means anywhere people generally speak English, to me. I'll stop using it if it's weird or offensive?

Not offensive, but for example I don't think 'hygge' has taken off in America (could be wrong). British and American culture are very different, but I'd often read things described as "Anglo-Saxon" meaning "shit they do in Britain and/or possibly America we're not sure (maybe also Australia as well?)".

Most English-speakers (in this country at least) use it to mean these dead dudes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons

shit they do in Britain and/or possibly America we're not sure (maybe also Australia as well?)

Yup, that's how it's used here in Sweden as well. By wannabe academic snobs like me, pretending to know things ;)

Edit- just checked a German and a Swedish dictionary. Actually means anywhere people generally speak English in these languages.

Also, Biff Byford. Obvs.

Hygge has been boiled down to getting pissed in a onesie by candlelight