This is the latest jargon. One "populates" a model with data.

(To fully illustrate the MVC concept, modifications made to the data view ...
the view. function refreshview(dataset) { // **populate the model with new data**. ...
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setCellEditor(editor); // **Populate the model with a small amount of data**
DefaultMutableTreeNode hardwareNode = new DefaultMutableTreeNode("Hardware"); ...
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**The model is populated with the data** from the section: "Creating a Model". ...
Populate the model with data. First acquire a top-level iterator. ...
inti.sourceforge.net/tutorial/libinti/talwexample.html

Bigger is Better
When **data to populate the model** is of a poor quality or inconsistently available,
or; When the run time for the model is unacceptably slow. ...
www.environmental-expert.com/ articles/article1256/article1256.htm

Mimno, Myers & Holum
... data modeling tools and ETL tools are used to modify the target data model
and **populate the model with additional Facts and attributes** of dimensions. ...
www.mimno.com/articles/article9.html

COPD Expenditures, Center for Healthcare Studies, Feinberg School ...
Develop a data collection protocol for elements necessary **to populate the model**
and make the data collection protocol and tool accessible via the world wide ...
www.chs.northwestern.edu/copdexpenditures.htm

The Next Big Thing: A Blueprint for the “Social” Enterprise ...
Collaborative **creation of content to populate the model** with “implementation-specific”
data (binding): This has recently been demonstrated on the Internet ...
blog.godunov.com/2005/06/a_blueprint_for.html

NOVELL: Cool Solutions: XFORM Docs for Provisioning Workflow Tool
This class is used to initialize the data model used by the XFORM page and is
... This class contains **the methods to populate the model** from a default ...
www.novell.com/coolsolutions/dirxml/ features/a_pageflows_using_xform_dirxml.html