The Nature of Data and Information

 Data is the collection of raw facts that is represented either in quantities, characters or symbols. It’s usually used for values and measurements and might not make sense by itself… which is why data still needs a number of processes applied, for it to make more sense.



 Information is facts provided or learned about something or someone. It can be used in many different ways and originally means to give a form to something.



 Data and information differ from each other.

 Data is the input to an information system and may be in the form of different types of media such as image, audio, video, text and numbers.

 Information is the output from an information system. The information processes is responsible for transforming data into information. Information from one information system can be data for another information system.