Data and Information

Data and Information

Data

• Currently we are living in data world. 
• Computers and the hosted applications might be generate characters, numbers and symbols while performing operations.
• We can say this is data.
• This data is important for future purpose.
• It resides in electronic devices and might be ordered and unorganized.
• Sometimes we can say this is raw data also.
• So, need to store this data for future purpose.
• Example      :       120557

Information

• The data may not understand clearly.
• So, need to process and organize the data and make it structure to get into meaningful.
• We can say this is information.
• Basically information will come from data.
• The characteristics of information are correctness and completeness and meaningful.
•  Example
• Date        :          12/05/57
• Time        :          12:05:57
• Money     :           $1,20,557

Data vs Information

Data processing

• Data processing means converting the raw data into meaningful information 

Example 1

Data:

• The history of weather temperature in this world since 100 years is nothing but data.

Processing:

• Processing the 100 years of weather data to find out global temperature.

Information:

• After process and organize the data, we can find out the how the global temperature is rising.

Example 2

Data:

• Per month the number of visitors of website (www.amazon.com) 
• The visitors visiting data will be stored in log file.

Processing:

• Processing the huge log file data to find out the visitors traffic in specific country.

Information:

• After process and organize the data, we can find out the traffic from specific country, means 
• From India traffic is more and 
• From U.S traffic is very less.

Thanks for your time.

-Nireekshan