"shards of information" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to various pieces of information that are related, but incomplete. For example, "I managed to gather some shards of information from the witness, but I could not get a clear answer".
There are shards of information that are clearly important, but we don't yet have the context for them.
Intelligence officials say such a lag is typical of the ever-changing process of piecing together shards of information into a coherent picture fit for officials' public statements.
Detectives work the streets an arena of action, vice, lust, greed, aggression, and violence to gather shards of information about who did what to whom.
We learn about them from a slow accumulation of detail, shards of information, like a son searching for a lost father, or a novelist for the elusive voice of his characters.
Much of what analysts sift through are shards of information that are ambiguous or incomplete, sometimes not up to date, and that typically offer more insight about what the Iranians are not doing than evidence of what they are up to.
Discovering the Doors long after Jim Morrison's death and long before the internet, there was a deep mystery about them – you would find shards of information in music encyclopedias, come across the odd newspaper or magazine article, and once, amazingly, ITV reshowed a documentary from 1968 of the Doors live at London's Roundhouse, juxtaposed with scenes of student revolution.
That record, set in stone as it were, is like a fingerprint a shard of information that describes the conditions of the time.
Palestinian officials, while cautioning against debating shards of leaked information, said the concession as represented did not appear to be considerable enough.
Sharding – either manually at application level or automated by distributed storage frameworks – can allow scaling out by adding more servers, but it also leads to application complexity if queries and update transactions span over several shards of data.
There is some startling stuff in here, perhaps more startling to me, who spent much of my time as a reporter covering Bush and as a writer researching her biography, searching for a shard or two of information that might reveal more about this intensely reticent and unassuming woman.
It was an unsettling jumble of information, shards that perhaps could be assembled into some kind of useful profile for someone, but not her.
