DATA AND INFORMATION:

    Data:

             A collection of raw facts and figures is called data. The word raw means that the facts have not been processed to get their exact meaning. Data is given to the computer for processing . Data is collected from different sources . It is collected for different purposes. Data may consist of numbers, characters, symbols or pictures etc.

    

      Examples of Data:

                                 Some examples of data are follows:

                         . Student fill an admission form when they get admission in college . The form consists   of raw facts about the student. These raw facts are students name father name address etc. The purpose of collecting this data is a to maintain the records of the student during study period in the college.

                        . Government collect the data of all citizens of the country during the census. This data is stored permanently and is used for different purposes at different times.

                           .Different organization conduct surveys to know the opinion of the people about their product. In these surveys, people express their ideas and opinions about different issues. These ideas and opinions of the people are stored as data. The organization use this data for the improvement of their product etc. 

           Information:

                              the processed data is called information. Information is an organized and processed from the data. It is more meaningful than data and is used for making decision. Data is used as input for the processing and information is the output of this processing. This information can be used again in some other processing and will be considered as data in that processing. 

            For example, the marks of a student in different subjects is data. This data is used to calculate the total  marks which is the information. The total marks can be processed again to calculate average marks of the student. In this processing, total marks is used as data and average marks is the information.

   

            Examples of Information:

                                       Some examples of information are as follow:

                               .In college and universities the raw facts about student are stored on admission forms. For examples the user may need a list of all student. who live is Faisalabad . The desired list can be generated by applying some processing on the data.

                              . The data stored in census is use to generate different type of information . For  examples . Government can use it to find the total number of  graduates or literacy rate in the country etc.

                             

                :Different between Data and Information:

                              

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