Data vs. Information

Datanoun

plural of datum

Datanoun

Information, especially in a scientific or computational context, or with the implication that it is organized.

Datanoun

Recorded observations that are usually presented in a structured format.

Datanoun

(computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.

Datanoun

(mobile telephony) Digital information such as images or web pages transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than wifi.

Data

See Datum.

Data

a collection of facts, observations, or other information related to a particular question or problem; as, the historical data show that the budget deficit is only a small factor in determining interest rates.

Data

information, most commonly in the form of a series of binary digits, stored on a physical storage medium for manipulation by a computer program. It is contrasted with the program which is a series of instructions used by the central processing unit of a computer to manipulate the data. In some conputers data and execuatble programs are stored in separate locations.

Datanoun

a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn;

Data

Data are units of information, often numeric, that are collected through observation. In a more technical sense, data are a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables about one or more persons or objects, while a datum (singular of data) is a single value of a single variable.Although the terms and are often used interchangeably, these terms have distinct meanings.

Informationnoun

Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.

Informationnoun

The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.

Informationnoun

(legal) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.

Informationnoun

(obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.

Informationnoun

The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.

Informationnoun

The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.

Informationnoun

(computing) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.

Informationnoun

(Christianity) Divine inspiration.

Informationnoun

A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.

Informationnoun

(information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.

Informationnoun

As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.

Informationnoun

(information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).

Informationnoun

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.

Informationnoun

Any fact or set of facts, knowledge, news, or advice, whether communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; any datum that reduces uncertainty about the state of any part of the world; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction.

Informationnoun

A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offense against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalf of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand jury. See Indictment.

Informationnoun

A measure of the number of possible choices of messages contained in a symbol, signal, transmitted message, or other information-bearing object; it is usually quantified as the negative logarithm of the number of allowed symbols that could be contained in the message; for logarithms to the base 2, the measure corresponds to the unit of information, the hartley, which is log210, or 3.323 bits; called also information content. The smallest unit of information that can be contained or transmitted is the bit, corresponding to a yes-or-no decision.

Informationnoun

Useful facts, as contrasted with raw data; as, among all this data, there must be some interesting information.

Informationnoun

a message received and understood

Informationnoun

a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn;

Informationnoun

knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction

Informationnoun

(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome;

Informationnoun

formal accusation of a crime

Information

Information can be thought of as the resolution of uncertainty; it answers the question of and thus defines both its essence and the nature of its characteristics. The concept of information has different meanings in different contexts.