munge

Verb

• To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner, as for example when data wrangling requires nonsystemic or nonsystematic edits.
• To add a spamblock to (an email address).
• To corrupt a record about a person by erroneously merging in information about another person.

Examples

• It looks like this record is munged—it has this person’s birth date, but his father’s death date.