The phrase "altering data" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where changes or modifications to data are being discussed, such as in data management, programming, or research.
Example: "The researchers were careful to avoid altering data in a way that could compromise the integrity of their findings."
Alternatives: "modifying data" or "changing data".
The defendant, Sven Jaschan, 19, was found guilty of computer sabotage and illegally altering data, the court in the northwestern town of Verden said.
The hacker, Kevin Mitnick, 39, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., served five years in federal prison for stealing software and altering data at Motorola, Novell, Nokia, Sun Microsystems and the University of Southern California.
Then, in January 2005, Mr. Schubert alerted a colleague in a memo that he had been "repeatedly exposed to the Japanese practice of altering data presented to the customer," adding that such conduct was described at Takata as "the way we do business in Japan".
Serco told the committee that two managers who no longer worked for the company had been responsible for altering data but gave "no convincing explanation" for why they would do so since they were not paid bonuses, according to the MPs.
"With Panoply.io, complex tasks like schema building and altering, data mining, complex modelling, scaling, performance tuning, security, backup and more are all handled by an array of machine learning algorithms".
The VM (The Netherlands) asks if 'someone with malicious intent broke into or logged on a computer, e-mail account, website or profile site?', The ODW (The Netherlands) asks about altering web-content, stealing or altering data on a device, breaking into your email account.
Serco, admonished by MPs after it was revealed to have altered data about out-of-hours doctor services in Cornwall, was paid £10m by NHS England for providing healthcare.
The American people have every right to be suspicious when NOAA alters data to get the politically correct results they want.... NOAA needs to come clean about why they altered the data to get the results they needed to advance this administration's extreme climate change agenda.
Unlike recent episodes in which Web sites were defaced or credit card records were taken from an online music retailer, this week's attacks have not involved stolen or altered data.
As a member of the Bureau of Economic Analysis's advisory panel and a professional user of government statistics for 35 years, I am not aware of any instance in which government statisticians have altered data under political pressure.
Offensive operations intended to alter data, turn off networks or destroy machines — which is what made the Iran operation so complex and unusual — are a far newer phenomenon.
