On: The Origin of Unix Pipes

[mrleinad]

To "massage data" sounds a bit like what some scientists do whenever they don't get the results they expect.

Kinda funny concept anyway...

[njharman → mrleinad]

You've attributed one connotation (probably the one most known to public due to media reporting of scientist malfeasance) to the phrase "massage data". Which actually has the more general meaning of to manipulate, to process data. Perhaps to get the data into different format, or to extract just the rows/columns/bits that are of interest.

[mrleinad → njharman]

A drawback of English not being my native language, most probably. :) Thanks for your clarification.