mung
jargonprogrammingops culture
Stands for: Mung Until No Good
To transform data through a series of changes, often messily or destructively.
From the recursive joke 'Mung Until No Good', it can mean useful reshaping of data or ruining something through repeated tinkering, depending on tone. 'Data munging' is the everyday sense: the grubby work of cleaning and reformatting inputs until they fit.
Also known as: munge, munging