While the terms 'data' and 'information' are often used to mean the same thing, they do have slightly different meanings:
Data:
- Raw, unprocessed facts
- Figures, statistics, numbers that have not been analysed or interpreted
- Often meaningless without context
- Census statistics
- Survey results
- Customer names
Information:
- Processed and interpreted data
- Statistics that have been analysed and assigned meaning
- More useful than data as it has context
- News articles
- Research papers
- Maps with points of interest
Overall, data is raw, unprocessed facts and figures, whereas information is data that has been processed, organized, and interpreted to become useful and meaningful.
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