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Sniglets are defined as "Words that don't appear in the dictionary, but should".

You take an existing word (or phrase) and modify it by adding, deleting, or changing one letter, then supply your new definition.

Here is a challenge for the holidays for KDnuggets News Readers:

Take a term related to Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery,
modify one letter as above,
then supply your new definition

For example,

• Data pining -- wishing for more and better data (frequent condition of data miners)
• notwork -- not functional network

Best entries will be immortalized in next issue of KDnuggets News and on www.kdnuggets.com/websites/humor.html page.

To help inspire you, here are more examples from SearchCRM recent IT Sniglets:

• CRM simplementation -- The false notion that deploying CRM isn't very difficult.
• Vice President of Customer Scare -- The person who is charged with the unfortunate task of managing customer responses after there has been a security breach resulting in identity theft.
• Data squality -- A hopeless condition � data that is so dirty and wretched, it cannot be saved.
• Sales farce automation -- A failed attempt to deploy sales force automation technology to a group of unwilling, technophobic sales people.
• Business scarecard -- A business report with lots of negative information on it.
• Datababe -- Attractive DBAs or business analysts.