Chapter 1-Data, Information and Knowledge

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What is data?
Data are raw facts and figures that have not been processed.
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Example of data...
05122015
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What is information?
Information is data which has been processed within a context in order to give it meaning. INFORMATION=DATA+CONTEXT+MEANING
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Example of Infrmation
Dat has been put into meaning and context so 05122015 has been processed and given a context so it has become a date 05/12/2015
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What is Knowledge?
When you apply a set of rules to the information that is given
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Example of knowlege...
In an ice cream shop the data is analysed and they have come to a conclusion that the most ice cream that month is Vanilla therefore the next time the owner will order five times as much vanilla ice cream than chocolate
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Information is data which has been processed within a context in order to give it meaning. INFORMATION=DATA+CONTEXT+MEANING

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Dat has been put into meaning and context so 05122015 has been processed and given a context so it has become a date 05/12/2015

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When you apply a set of rules to the information that is given

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