[Sigia-l] RE: Data vs. Information

[Booher, Craig]

Ziya wrote:

>I tried to give the most canonical 'data' example: price at time for stocks.
>I'm not sure how much this could be 'reduced' further towards (more)
'data'.
>So even then 'data' in its most atomic form still reeks of information, at
>least to some. Indeed it's quite difficult to stumble upon random or pure
>data. It's difficult to construct data that's not immediately information,
>at least to some. 


How about "1 meter"?  A unit of measurement, but what's being measured?
Height?  Length?  Distance?  Diameter of a beach ball?

How about a spreadsheet of numbers?  Remove the labels above the columns and
next to the rows and you have raw data.  

CSB


Craig S. Booher
Technical Information Coordinator
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
P.O. Box 2001                                         Phone:  920/721-5219
Neenah, WI  54957-2001                          Fax:  920/721-8471


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