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Data Vs Information

This document discusses the differences between data and information. It defines data as raw facts and numbers, while information is organized and processed data that provides context and is useful. Data can come from various primary, secondary, and tertiary sources, and can be collected from people, places, things, and machines. The document also describes different document types like turnaround documents, and whether documents are machine readable, human readable, hard copies, or soft copies.

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Data Vs Information

This document discusses the differences between data and information. It defines data as raw facts and numbers, while information is organized and processed data that provides context and is useful. Data can come from various primary, secondary, and tertiary sources, and can be collected from people, places, things, and machines. The document also describes different document types like turnaround documents, and whether documents are machine readable, human readable, hard copies, or soft copies.

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Fundamentals

of
Information
Processing
Data and Information
Data vs Information

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Data is a collection of facts, such as


numbers, words, measurements,
observations or just descriptions of things.

Information is organized facts and figures.


In other words processed data.
• Data is a collection of facts.
Information is how you
understand those facts in
context.
• Data is unorganized, while
information is structured or
organized.
• Data is not typically useful on
its own, but information is.
• Data generally includes the
raw forms of numbers,
statements, and characters.
Information doesn’t have to.
• Information depends on data.
Difference between Data
and Information
Data vs. Information in
Computers

• In the world of computers, data is


the input, or what you tell the
computer to do or save.
Information is the output, or how
the computer interprets your data
and shows you the requested
action or directive.
• Data and Information may be collected from:
• People
Sources of • Places
• Things
Data and
Information • These may be further classified as:
• Primary Source
• Secondary Sources
• Tertiary Sources
Sources of Data and Information

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Document Types
Data maybe collected from the
following:
• Turnaround Document
• Human readable
• Machine readable
• Hard Copy
• Soft Copy
Turn around Document

• A turnaround document is a document which :


• Has some information printed onto it by a
computer.
• Has more information added to it by a human.
• Is fed back into a computer to transfer the added
information into the computer.

• Optical mark recognition and optical character


recognition are often used together in a turnaround
document.
Machine Readable vs Human Readable

• Machine readable data or


document is in a form that
can be easily read and
processed by a computer.

• Human readable data is data


in a format that can be
conveniently read by a
human.
Hard Copy

•Hard copy refers to the digital document


file which is printed on paper or other
material like transparency. In hard copy
the output is printed on the paper and
sometimes it is referred as permanent
copy. We can touch the hard copy. We can
say it is a physical copy.

For example- News Paper, Book, Note


book, printed document files etc.
Soft Copy
Soft copy refers to the digital
document file or electronic version of a
document which is not printed on
paper. In soft copy the output is
present in the USB drives and
computers etc and sometimes it is
referred as temporary copy. We can
not touch the soft copy. We can say it
is a virtual copy.
For example- ENews paper, Ebook, pdf
notes, scanned notes etc.
Summary

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