Data refers to unorganized and raw facts and numbers that may not be meaningful on their own, while information is derived from processed and organized data that has been analyzed and interpreted into a comprehensible and usable form, allowing it to be directly used for decision making.

1. Data vs information
Data Information
1. Data is scattered/unorganized. 1. Informationisalwayswell-organized.
2. Data isn’talwaysmeaningful. 2. Informationisalwaysmeaningful.
3. Basic fact/data are raw materials 3. Convertedfact/processeddatais
information.
4. Data is unintelligible. 4. Informationisintelligible.
(comprehensible)
5. Data is a representationof information. 5. Informationisinterpreteddata.
6. Data may not be inorder. 6. Informationshouldbe inorder.
7. It helpsindecisionmaking. 7. It isdirectlyusedindecisionmaking.
8. Data are not alwaysinusable form. 8. Informationisalwaysinusable form.
9. Observationandrecordingare done to
obtaindata
9. Analysisisdone toobtaininformation.