DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DATA AND INFORMATION
Data | Information |
Data are simply facts or figures – bits of information, but not information itself. | Information is how you understand those facts in context. |
Data is also known as softcopy | Information is known as hard copy |
Each student’s test score is one piece of data | The average score of a class in information that can be derived from the given data.
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