Real data definition

Real data means data from a production system, vendor, or public records, or any other dataset which otherwise contains operational data. For example, a dataset that is a ten-year old backup of an existing system and contains data about real individuals, matters, or cases, would be real data. A set of public records that was purchased from a vendor for use in testing would also be real data.

Examples of Real data in a sentence

  • Real data was received from the building-scale battery at the Environment building and was used for validating the simulation model.

  • Real data show that costs of health care and higher education have increased rapidly, greater than the rate of inflation, under the economic ideology promoted by Prof.

  • Critical: Real data loss or corruption, or essential part of the system is unusable.