dead data

British

noun

computing data that is no longer relevant

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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?

From Forbes

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."

From Project Gutenberg

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