What is the difference between Data and information?

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Troy Keller

Computers & Technology

22 October, 14:34

What is the difference between Data and information?

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Maximillian Tucker · Answer 1

Data is a piece of an Information or a raw form of information while an Information is a processed Data.

Explanation:

An example of Data would be Alphabets of someone's name while the name would be an example of an Information.

On it's own, data makes no sense and needs to be processed to become Information which makes sense.