"data of the past" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to historical information or facts that are no longer relevant but are still accessible. For example, "The data of the past showed that the prices of oil had been steadily increasing until a few years ago."
So climate scientists often test their models against the known data of the past, to see how faithfully the models re-create the climate.
My only concern is that its about 25 billion ly away and hence our studies will only reveal the data of the past.
Indeed, if we only use the data of the past 30 y, these show an almost linear trend of 0.017°C/y, yielding an expected 2.5 new record hot temperatures in the last decade [1 per 4 years].
So how can we be sort of empirical and evidence-based, but also not fall into this trap of just repeating kind of what the data of the past is?
The Ice Core Walk Project is a self-guided audio tour where users can "virtually walk down the data" of the past 800,000 years of our planet's climate history.
Observed data of the past 120 years of the HISTALP data-set are used to evaluate runoff simulations under historic climate variations as well as to test the delta-change method for bias correction of climate data.
We also designed a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) dashboard with the Tableau experts, which displays a summary of data for the past 7 days.
Or that millions of people in Britain believe that the "big data" sets of the past century yield one message: invest in property.
Moreover, any academic paper setting out to record the effects of recent financial innovation would have missed the biggest data point of the past 80 years the present crash.
The business or data analyst of the past is evolving into a new type of professional, who must possess both technical and business acumen as well as the ability to communicate insights from analytics to business and IT leaders.
But Weinberger has a real affection for the data architects of the past.
