OCR's Data, information and knowledge - what is data, how to make information and what is knowledge.

1. ICT – Data, information and
knowledge
Elliot Mackness

2. What is data?
The best way to describe data is
to look at an example; LO22OL;
data is unprocessed raw facts.
There is no meaning to data,
although we can guess, we do
not know what it is.

3. What is information?
Information is a product of
processing the raw facts and data
that has no meaning; there is a
simple equation that helps us to
understand how to process data
into information.
Information
=
Data
Context
+
+
Meaning

4. What is Knowledge?
Knowledge is the use and
application of the information.
Knowledge involves what people
can actually interpret from the
information they have access to.
This is mainly due to the context
that has been added to the data.