SSS ONE WEEK ONE LESSON NOTE (ICT_223)

 

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TOPIC: DATA AND INFROMATION

Introduction

These terms are interchangeably, loosely or confusingly used at times. The word data has precise and distinct meaning which differentiates it from information. However, data are vital tools used for carrying out processing.

Data: are raw or basic facts from which information is deduced. It is the record of the daily transaction of an organization e.g. Date, amount of goods on invoice, details of pay slip, numbers of hours worked, number of students admitted in a year, number of books supplied in the school library etc.

Information: is an analyzed or processed data, in a meaningful way for decision making. Information is manipulated through a processing system (either manual or manipulated) and becomes a meaningful and useful results obtained from data processing.

 

Differences between Data and Information  

Data

Information

1.    Raw, unorganized that needs to be processed 

Processed, organized, structured and presented in a context to make meaning

2.    It is meaningless

It is meaningful

3.    Data is input

Information is output

4.    Data is collected by observation, recording, interview, questionnaire survey etc.

Information is derived or deduced from collected data.

5.    It is difficult to recollect when lost

It is easily   derived from stored data when lost

6.    Not helpful in decision making

Helpful in decision making.

 


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