carter
@donaldcarter55  Reputation - 0 Rank - Aluminum
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Information is data, knowledge is the application?
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Strayer
@Straydog Reputation - 11 Rank - Aluminum
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Do you have a dictionary handy? Data are measurements or facts. Information is something told (from the data). Knowledge is what has been perceived or grasped.
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Murray
@nick Reputation - 0 Rank - Aluminum
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Interesting question.
There is a whole wealth of information stored in people’s email boxes, hard drives, intranet sites and hardcopy reports. Imagine the possibilities if this information could be made easily accessible and searchable to anyone within an organisation.
I frequently come across situations where the only way I can gain knowledge is to first ask around to find a person who may have the information I require, then presuming I can find such a person, I need them to “dig it out” from whatever archive it is stored in. Even then, I cannot be certain of the authenticity of the information and whether or not other or better examples exist elsewhere.
As an example – a simple answer to the question “do we have an example of a project on indexed-swaps?” involves conversations with at least 3 people, a couple of queries of internal databases queries to find Black Blacks that have worked on Investment Banking projects, then conversations with each of them to determine whether their experience covers indexed-swaps, after which one or more of them may or may not have an example which in turn may or may not be documented. All in all, a good half a day’s work.
The trouble with the above example that different people hold the knowledge of “who has worked on what”, and “what was done”. A knowledge resource or system would remove the need for me to iteratively chase information from multiple sources. In order to be able to just type “indexed-swap project” into a page and get back a filtered, reliable list of contacts and project documents, my company would need to move beyond information management to knowledge management.
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V J Laxmanan
@qpyhxc1115 Reputation - 23 Rank - Aluminum
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Good question. It is really simple, folks. If you can reduce ENTROPY you have knowledge. If it increases ENTROPY then all you have is information or data. In fact, there is a mathematical definition relating Information and Entropy. Have to look it and reduce my entropy level! Cheers!
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Sitta
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As I perceive this, information and knowledge are generically data of some sort. Knowledge is also be justly defined as awareness of some data/information. It is easy to confuse the application or the ability to apply a process to information as knowledge. This knowledge may include the derived corollaries from a set of data.
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Ali
@theqig Reputation - 99 Rank - Aluminum
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Good Question,
Information is structured data that can be interpreted and analyzed. Knowledge is Human related activities that include learning, experience and skills which result in the ability to produce value to what we do.
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Frank Zappa
@erringto Reputation - 0 Rank - Aluminum
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“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”
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Robert Jackson
@Robert-Jackson Reputation - 97 Rank - Aluminum
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Waitress, I’ll have what Frank’s having! Make it a double!
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Gomezadams
@spazwhatsup Reputation - 89 Rank - Aluminum
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UUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
One goes in and may go out just as quickly , the other is retained?
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gcierniak
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Well, information is every chunk you can get from the world surrounding you. It can have different modalities (e.g., visual, auditory, haptic) and/or codalities (e.g., image/analogue, verbal/symbolic). An information chunck does not contain meaning in itself, although it can “contain” multiple meanings.
Knowledge, on the other hand, is meaning for the person who has actively constructed it. However, there are different types of knowledge. Knowledge can be inert – this means you know something in theory but you cannot apply it. Knowledge can also be implicit – this means you can do sth but you cannot explicate how you do it. One can also distinguish between conceptual and procedural knowledge (when learning to drive a car, you start with conceptual knowledge…what to do first but over time you more or less automize this knowledge into procedures).
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Chris Seider
@cseider Reputation - 3020 Rank - Titanium
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Ummmm…tomato or tomato LOL
Information is the basis for knowledge. Knowledge allows information to be conveyed because true understanding exists.
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Mike Carnell
@Mike-Carnell Reputation - 3168 Rank - Titanium
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@donaldcarter55 You may want to Google a thing called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Information is an input to every step of the Taxonomy. There are lots of options of what to do with it i.e. knowledge, comprehension, application, etc.
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T.S.Eliot
@erringto Reputation - 0 Rank - Aluminum
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Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Mike Carnell
@Mike-Carnell Reputation - 3168 Rank - Titanium
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@erringto That certainly cleared that whole question up. Thank you.
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MBBinWI
@MBBinWI Reputation - 2601 Rank - Titanium
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If you have it, it’s just information. If I have it, it’s knowledge!
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Chris Seider
@cseider Reputation - 3020 Rank - Titanium
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@MBBinWI
Have you read “All you need to know you learned in Kindergarten” lately? Just poking at ya…and not in a Facebook kinda way! :)
@erringto Are you new to the site? I’ve learned in the past….don’t just quote something–at least quote and digest and maybe that’ll show the difference between knowledge and information (getting back to the topic at hand). Questions themselves don’t answer things…they tend to obfuscate.
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Govindasamy Chinnu
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Information Knowledge
Tangible – informs humans Human process – thinking/awarenesses
Processing changes representation Processing changes consciousness
Physical objects Mental objects
Context independent Context affects meaning
Entity Awareness and intuition
Easily transferable Transfer requires learning
Reproducible at low cost Not identically reproducible
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Govindasamy Chinnu
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Information
a) Tangible – informs humans
b) Processing changes representation
c) Physical objects
d) Context independent
e) Entity
f) Easily transferable
g) Reproducible at low cost
Knowledge
a) Human process – thinking/awarenesses
b) Processing changes consciousness
c) Mental objects
d) Context affects meaning
e) Awareness and intuition
f) Transfer requires learning
g) Not identically reproducible
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