data exhaust
n.—Gloss: the incidental statistics and information that accumulate when people interact with a system, process, or event, such as when tracking visitor interaction on a web site. «Hansen also touted the utility of absorbing all the information users provide more passively. “We get a tremendous amount of information out of user patterns on our site. The ’data exhaust’ as they call it, is a tremendously powerful tool. Once we can hook this up with print pubs, this is going to take things to a whole new level.”» —“AMC 2007: User-Generated Content Cues: ‘Set Up the Scenario and Then Get Out of the Way’” FishbowlNY Oct. 30, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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How do you pronounce the name Carnegie? The Scottish industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, pronounced it with an accent on the second syllable, as his namesake the Carnegie Corporation of New York takes pains to make clear. Good luck...