dead data

noun

1. computing data that is no longer relevant

Example Sentences

Young Latino and Black men continue to be overrepresented among the dead, data show.

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So how do chief executives and other organisational leaders ensure that their systems are not instead clogged with “dead data” that adds no value but clogs up their information capacity?

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And he concludes: "Sociology ought, therefore, to guard carefully against the tendency to crystallise that which is essentially fluid and moving, the tendency to consider as given fact or dead data that which creates itself and gives itself into the world of phenomena continually by force of its own ideal conception."

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