Meaning of dark data | Babel Free

Definitions

Data that are unanalyzed, inaccessible, or not organised in such a way that they are readily available.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“For those who seek⟳ surveillance revenues, dark data represent⟳ lucrative and necessary territories in the dynamic universal jigsaw constituted by surveillance capitalism's urge⟳ toward scale, scope, and action. Thus, the technology commmunity casts dark data as the intolerable “unknown unknown” that threatens the financial promise⟳ of the “internet of things.””

“But that diagnosis of what had gone wrong was incorrect. Later research⟳ showed that the real problem was dark data. Shortly after the election, researchers chose a random sample of houses and knocked on the door to ask⟳ people if and how they voted.”

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