historical data
Archived factual records
Historical data refers to information collected or recorded in the past, used as a basis for analysis, comparison, or prediction.
In business and finance, historical data might include past sales figures, stock prices, or economic indicators: The model was trained on ten years of historical data.
Scientists and researchers use historical data to identify trends, establish baselines, or understand how conditions have changed over time.
- spreadsheetsTabular data documents
- backtestingValidating strategies using history
- trend analysisExamining directional data shifts
- erasNamed spans of history
- archivesStored historical documents
old records · centuries · decades · metadata · deep dive · demographic shifts · epochs · provenance · fact checking · census records · looking back · economic trends · primary sources · oral histories · paper trail · historical events · documentation · chronicles
- monitoringmetrics, alerts, dashboards, continuous monitoring, logs
- climate statisticsclimate modeling, climate models, climate prediction, climatology, weather patterns
- recordsbirth records, world record, record, Guinness, documents
- analyticsanalytics, metrics, dashboards, KPI, dashboard
- data warehousingstar schema, ETL, extract, transform, load
- data termsrecord, CSV file, XML file, metadata, schema