Data is raw material used as input and information is processed
data obtained as output of data processing.
Data is
raw, unorganized facts that need to be processed. Data can be something simple
and seemingly random and useless until it is organized. Each student's test
score is one piece of data.
When
data is processed, organized, structured or presented in a given context so as
to make it useful, it is called Information. The
class' average score or the school's average score is the information that can
be concluded from the given data.
I am interested into what can be done with information once it has been extracted from data. Have you ever heard of anyone storing the extracted information and processing it inside a computer program? Do you know what any of the storage structures are for information? I have built one I call an endeme which can store information, and I am looking for others. This sort of processing is my specialty.
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