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Data and information are related to each other but they differ in many ways especially in their meanings. Here are five examples on how they differ from each other: 1. Data are facts while information are interpreted facts When we talk about data, they are facts that people gather based on their observation and experiences. They are raw facts which people gather. Meanwhile, information is what becomes of these data. They are interpreted facts based on the data gathered. 1. Data is based from records and observations while information is based on research Most data are just simple records of facts or observations. They're often written down on a sheet of paper or stored in one's brain. On the other hand, information is more factual in nature. They're also more reliable since they're backed by research. Often, they're gathered from experts such as scientists and researchers. 1. Data are mere numbers and figures while information give meaning to these numbers and figures When we talk about data we refer to the numbers and figures we often see in our math textbooks. They come in the form of graphs, timelines, fractions, decimals, ratio and proportion, and many more. But once these are interpreted and given meaning to they become information. 1. Data lack meaning while information are meaningful Indeed, numbers and figures alone lack meaning. They can never tell you something unless they are interpreted and explained. This is what data are. On the contrary, information are full of meanings. They're data which are explained or interpreted to be understood by individuals. 1. Data are valueless while information are useful and valuable Data alone are meaningless. What's the use of gathering them if you don't know what they are about or what they stand for? Information on the other hand are something you can readily

understand and use. You can benefit a lot from information since you can apply them in your daily life. Community Answer Update Answer Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Edit Ads by Google MIKE2.0 Methodology An open source methodology for Enterprise Information Management www.openmethodology.org

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Data is a collection of facts, figures and statistics related to an object. Data can be processed to create useful information. Data is a valuable asset for an organization. Data can be used by the managers to perform effective and successful operations of management. It provides a view of past activities related to the rise and fall of an organization. It also enables the user to make better decision for future. Data is very useful for generating reports, graphs and statistics. Example Students fill an admission form when they get admission in college. The form consists of raw facts about the students. These raw facts are student's name, father name, address etc. The purpose of collecting this data is to maintain the records of the students during their study period in the college. Information The manipulated and processed form of data is called information. It is more meaningful than data. It is used for making decisions. Data is used as input for processing and information I output of this processing. Example Data collected from census is used to generate different type of information. The government can use it to determine the literacy rate in the country. Government can use the information in important decision to improve literacy rate. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Information is data that has been processed into a suitable form for a final user. Data are raw facts that have been collected trough observation, experimenting and research. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is the raw material given to computer on which computer will perform a given activity by processing these data. Information is the outcome of the processed data. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing

Data is collection of facts,numbers,symbols,alphabets. Information is the processed form of data. Data----> Method oto process data---->Information Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is the raw material to create information. For example when you fill out a form it is considered raw material or unprocessed facts (data) it is then used to maintain a record and create information. Information is the useful facts of raw material, Information is more important than data. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing The main difference between data and information is that "data consists of raw facts and figures but it is in such a form that it is difficult to conclude any result from it whereas information is arranged data that tells something new to us and we can make a decision or conclude a result from it." Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Define data and information. Explain with examples Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is an collection of basic facts or raw facts of any entity .It consist of numbers,alphabets,symbols,pictures,sounds,vedio any other information. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Information is data that has been processed a suitable form for a final user. Data are raw facts. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data- Data are raw facts. Computer programs work or data. Data are basic facts. E.g. 121279 is a data. It has no meaning. It may be a date of birth, number of rupees etc. Information- Meaningful data are information. Information are organized data. E.g. 12-12-79 is a date of birth of a person, Rs.121279 is an amount of money. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data are raw facts that constitutes building block of constitutions. Data are part of database. Data are representation of facts, concepts or instructions in a formalized matter suitable for communication. Information is organized data which is given some meaning and usefulness for decision making. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Hello dear Here are the few differences b/w data and information regarding computers hope you will accept it.... 1 data is form of raw facts and figures 1 information is a processed data -----2 data can be collected in unsequenced form

2 while information would automatically in a meaningfull presentation -----3 computer works on complete and thorough information 3 computer annot differ in unsequenced data figures -----4 there is no way to manipulate process raw data at discrete/ hardware level in the computing machine 4 computing machine needs the proper and understandable way of communicating and presenting data to share information -----5 at last data simply un understandable 5 while information is complete image of understandable data Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing I think data becomes information when it is input into an information processing system where it is processed and output to the desired user or even stored for further processing Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data are raw facts and information is the processed data which is meaningful. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing 123+123 is data =226 information Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Define data and infromation Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data refers to primary material obtained from the field for example by conducting a survey and is not presented in any organized way.On the other hand information refers refers to processed data that has been organized according to a predefined criteria. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is a raw while information is the result of analysis... Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is raw or unprocessed information information is the processed information Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is like words and Infomration is like sentence -Santhosh Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Fact about people, other objectives and events. Anonymous Report

Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Thats good Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing DATA: >data is collection of raw facts. > data cannot be used directly for decision making > data is input for processing > data dosnot gve proper meaning > data occupies more space than information. INFORMATION: >processed/ organized form > used directly for decision making >information is output of processing > it gves proper / clear meaning > it occupies less space than data Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing data is unprocessed instructions (in non-chronological order)and if it is processed (put in chronological order)will become your information .e.g. If you had a sum: 123+123(this is your data)=246(this is now your information) Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is unprocessed instructions that once processed becomes information, data means raw facts and figures that do noy have meaning as it has not been processed. Whilst information is data organised in a meaningfull way. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is a collection of information or facts, figures and statistics related to an object. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing The numarical figure obtained from any feild of study are known as data Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is the collection of facts that are processed to produce information Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Information: A bank statement, balance sheet, bus time table, car registration plate Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is bits of information when put together will serve informative purposes. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Something that help u and some information Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing

Data is a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn. While the Information is a collection of an unorganized data that transform into a useful information. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is like a phrase while information is like a clause. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Information is processed data Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Since your question is placed in "Computer" category. I will assume that you need to know how computer converts data into information. Computer understands data in binary form, that is, the language comprised of combinations of 0 and 1 and then converts it into human understandable form. Click OSI model of Transforming Data into Human readable information and Processing and Converting Data by Computers for to-the-point details. Also visit this Blurtit reference. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing I'm afraid your question is redundant. By the very definition of the two words, data IS information. If this was not the clarification you were looking for, please be more specific, such as "How do computers convert binary data into graphics (or documents, etc.)... Good luck! Asuka Jr. Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing When the data is processed through the computer. For example; A business up dating the daily recipts into to computer so that the company would know how much they made that day besides many other factors. Such as what was the best selling product sold that day and on and on. Gene Gattuso Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is raw material for data processing. Data relates to fact, event and transactions. Information is data that has been processed in such a way as to be meaningful to the person who receives it. It is any thing that is communicated. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is the raw material given to computer on which computer will perform a given activity. Information is the processed data. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is a collection of non-random facts recorded by research while information that have been processed for a purpose Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data means matter it will present not in order.information means matter in an order. Anonymous Report

Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Briefly describe the process used by human beings to turn data into information. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is a raw unorganized fact that can be drawn into conclusions Asantewa Maccarthy Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing ...discuss the nature of data and information. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data are been added to give information. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Using examples explain database environments Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing 1. An image data processor for processing image information representative of images, into bit map data to be used by an output device to output said images with a predetermined output resolution, and storing the bit map data into a bit map memory of memory means, for subsequent use by said output device, said memory means being used to also store data other than said bit map data, and said bit map memory consisting of an empty area of said memory means which varies with a volume of said data other than said bit map data, so that a memory capacity of said bit map memory varies from time to time, said processor comprising: Calculating means for calculating said memory capacity of said bit map memory; comparator means responsive to said calculating means, for determining whether a memory capacity required for storing first bit map data for outputting said images with a nominal output resolution is larger than said memory capacity of said bit map memory which is calculated by said calculating means; modifying means responsive to said comparator means, for modifying said first bit map data into second bit map data if said memory capacity required for storing said first bit map data is larger than the calculated memory capacity of said bit map memory, said second bit map data being prepared to output said images with a reduced output resolution lower than said nominal output resolution, such that a memory capacity required for storing said second bit map data does not exceed the memory capacity of said bit map memory.

2. An image data processor according to claim 1, wherein said output device comprises a display device for displaying said images, according to said first bit map data if said memory capacity required for storing said first bit map data does not exceed said capacity of said bit map memory, or according to said second bit map data if said memory capacity required for storing said first bit map data exceeds said memory capacity of said bit map memory. 3. An image data processor according to claim 1, wherein said output device comprises a printing mechanism for recording said images, according to said first bit map data if said memory capacity required for storing said first bit map data does not exceed said memory capacity of said bit map memory, or according to said second bit map data if said memory capacity required for storing said first bit map exceeds said memory capacity of said bit map memory.

4. An image data processor according to claim 1, wherein said modifying means prepares said second bit map data such that said reduced output resolution is the same in both of a vertical and a horizontal direction in a plane in which said images are outputted. 5. An image data processor according to claim 4, further comprising judging means for determining whether said reduced output resolution reaches a predetermined limit, and means for disabling said modifying means if said judging means determines that said reduced output resolution reaches said predetermined limit. 6. An image data processor according to claim 1, further comprising judging means for determining whether said reduced output resolution reaches a predetermined limit, and means for disabling said modifying means if said judging means determines that said reduced output resolution reaches said predetermined limit. 7. An image data processor according to claim 1, wherein said modifying means prepares said second bit map data, if said memory capacity required for storing said first bit map data exceeds said memory capacity of said bit map memory, such that said reduced output resolution is lower than said nominal output resolution, in one of a vertical and a horizontal direction in a plane in which said images are outputted, said modifying means further modifying said second bit map data, if said memory capacity required for storing said second bit map data prepared for reducing the output resolution in said one direction only is still larger than said memory capacity of said bit map memory, said second bit map data being modified such that said reduced output resolution is lower than said nominal output resolution, in the other of said vertical and horizontal direction as well as in said one direction. 8. An image data processor according to claim 7, further comprising judging means for determining whether said reduced output resolution reaches a predetermined limit, and means for disabling and modifying means if said judging means determines that said reduced output resolution reaches said predetermined limit. 9. An image data processor according to claim 1, further comprising judging means for determining whether said reduced output resolution reaches a predetermined limit, and means for disabling said modifying means if said judging means determines that said reduced output resolution reaches said predetermined limit. 10. An image data processor according to claim 1, wherein said memory means includes a text memory for storing a batch of said image information as said data other than said bit map data, a predetermined volume of said image information being converted at a time into a corresponding set of bit map data, said memory capacity required for storing said first bit map data being equal to a capacity for requiring for storing the bit map data which corresponds to said predetermined volume of said image information. 11. An image data processor according to claim 10, wherein said image information consists of outline data representative of an outline of said images. 12. An image data processor according to claim 11, wherein said outline data consists of vector data representative of segments of said outline of said images. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing

Actually data and information are not the same thing. Data is/are facts. Information is what data is changed into be able to share. Date is always correct. Information is not. For an example, I am 28 years old. This is data. I can not be 28 and 62 years old at the same time. However, there can be two informational files stating these two ages. A computer takes data and turns it into information it can use using the binary number system. Sarah Tyson Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Well I'll show you an example of information Ex: I had 20 more...chocolate bars that my friends. There were 5 of my friends and they each had between 15 and twenty put this information in a bar graph and if you don't know what a bar graph is good luck and data is kinda the same thing Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Since data are facts that we can get to a specific thing, data becomes information if data are well presented through human interpretation. Example of it is reporting... Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Example:input is when the numbers are typed in. Processing is when the machine does the addition. Output is when the total is printed out. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data will become information when it is kept in an order.Anand2100 Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is material. Information is gather all material to be it. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data means core and information means modifies data Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is facts, infor. Is processed data Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Give example of data Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data refers to set of Values. Ex: 10,11,12... Whereas Information means Processed data which gives us some meaning . Ex: Roll no -----10 11 12. This gives us meaning that 10,11,12 are some Roll numbers. So information is that which gives meaning to data. Anonymous Report

Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is converted to information using the computer's processor. Data is basically raw input such as g-e-t and when these individual letters are keyed into the computer the processor begins to work on them (the computer pretty much sees 0s and 1s) it is presented to us as one word "get". Information is processed data Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is a representation of information. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is data not anything else. Information is Information not apples or strawberries. Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Data is data and information is information Anonymous Report Was this answer helpful? Yes | No | Needs editing Ads by Google Brain Training Games Improve memory and attention with scientific brain games. www.lumosity.com

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