ICT - Unit 1
- Created by: BethScott
- Created on: 13-04-15 15:44
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- Unit 1
- Data
- Raw facts or figures, measurements or values without meaning
- e.g. Tom- 1.10 James- 1.16 Emily- 1.12 Dan-1.20
- Information
- Data that has been given context, been given meaning, it has been processed and been organised in some way
- e.g. These are the times for the competitors in a swimming competition
- Knowledge
- e.g. The winner is the competitor with the shortest time, the judgement from this is that Tom is the winner
- Derived from information by adding a set of rules to it in order to make judgements or decisions
- Encoded Data
- When you shorten or abbreviate data for inputting purposes
- e.g. New York = JFK Manchester = Man / Blue eyes = Bl Green eyes = Gn
- Value Judgement
- Each opinion can be different for each person
- e.g. A person may look tall to person A but only medium to person B
- Encoding data often requires the person collecting or entering the data to make a value judgement about the answer
- Each opinion can be different for each person
- Coarsening Data
- Where you lose accuracy or precision of the original data
- e.g. All different options are put into one category such as; hazel, light brown and dark brown eyes all into one category named brown
- Data
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