"junk data" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to any data that is irrelevant or of no value. For example, "The researchers found that the spreadsheet contained only junk data and could not be used for analysis."
If they didn't, we would be using junk data and have a completely skewed understanding of the scale and nature of the employment recovery.
Malevolent forces like viruses that send out huge amounts of e-mail or denial-of-service attacks designed to flood servers with junk data can also bring the Internet to a grinding crawl.
But when examined one-by-one, there's a lot of junk data in there.
Users can use a wide variety of devices to join in HLA simulations and explicitly exclude from junk data in terms of a personalized data filtering policy.
The hacker spoke of a tool called Mstream that bombards servers with junk data from many different sources.
It's not just about parents, who will now be broadcasting their kids' viewing behaviors to friends, it's about junk data.
And Mr. Stein said he took the junk bond data, along with similar patterns in other kinds of investments, as potential evidence of a broader trend.
The remaining unknown unitrans, while lacking any known biological function, appear to represent actual genes and not random or "junk" sequence data.
Additionally, evaluation of mass spectra by post-processing using MS-Screener improved the reliability of mass analysis and prevented storage of data junk.
Netflix analyzes a junk ton of data about user viewing habits including locations, devices and times of day that people view stuff.
The plaintiff, from Birmingham, Alabama, argues that the iPhone 3G is a piece of junk, with shoddy data transfer performance, lots of dropped called, an inconsistent 3G connection, and so on.
