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Data and information are they the same thing ?

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Date Posted: 2015/09/04
Ali Wakkaf
by Ali Wakkaf , Accountant , The International Committee of The Red Cross (ICRC Syria)

No not the same we can say that data are the raw materials for the information.

No they're not the same . Data are just numbers names that doesn't make any sense ,In otherword you can't depend on them to make decisions . Because these data must be processed ,and analyzed into information which make sense and we can use them to make decisions    

FAZAL WAHAB
by FAZAL WAHAB , Senior Payroll/Payable Specialist(ERP System) , Naqel Co.

Data Is the raw form of Information......

Deleted user
by Deleted user

-First : data  :

1- Represent figures are unexplained .

2- Represent the input of the operating system .

3- No decision making depending on it .

Second: Information :

1- Figures represented are explained .

2- Represent the output of the operating system .

3- Management use it to take its decisions .

Badar Khan
by Badar Khan , Accounts cum administrative assistant , Al Qassimia Drivng Training Centre.Sharjah

data is unorganized facts that  needs to be processed ..once it is processed it becomes organized..this is called information..

Deleted user
by Deleted user

unprocessed form is data n processed form is called as information.

zainab muhd bashir
by zainab muhd bashir , Project Support , Community and Social Development Projec

no. information is data that has been processed

Michael Finner
by Michael Finner , BPM Technical Writer , Belcan

Data is just unprocessed information that by itself without analysis is not useful.

Muhammad Noman
by Muhammad Noman , SAP S4H FI Trainee , Excellence Delivered Pvt Ltd

Not at all Because data means only collection of records (unsorted) while information means extract out just useful data and converted them into meaningful information

Michelle Artatis
by Michelle Artatis , Secretary - Gen. Mgr. (Sales, Marketing, Service) , Arabian Medical Enterprises

Based on my understanding, they are not the same. Data will become information if the person understand the data.

manthan barsopiya barsopiya
by manthan barsopiya barsopiya , Accountant , R & M Associates

No sir,

DATA is unorganized form of information 

Information is in organized format

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