enormous datasets suck*

I finally went through and checked that all my raw data was in the right place so that I can start to analyse it. This, and not the analysis itself, is actually what I've been avoiding doing for three months. I was kind of expecting that it would only take me a few minutes and then I'd feel silly for putting it off for so long. It turned out to be almost as painful as I thought, though. I feel somewhat satisfied, since I wasn't dreading it for nothing, but it's not going to make it any easier to avoid procrastinating on the next batch...

*I originally had the much pithier title, "data sucks", but after sitting in a class where a student (still known to my friend and I as "data girl") spent half an hour trying to convince the head of a department that data was singular, I cringe every time I see/hear it used that way (especially when I'm the one misusing it). Data suck seems wrong, though, because it's not that each individual datum sucks, separately they're really very cool; it's only when a few hundred of them get together that they start sucking. I think data implies that I'm talking about a big, enormous dataseta, anyway, because nobody talks about data if they only have 5 of them, do they? So, basically I'm whining that I shouldn't have to spell it out. (I think I'm extending Wednesday for the whole week)