[Sigia-l] data as information?

[Listera]

Dan Saffer:
> Dick was picking a random number as an example of data.

Can randomness be an attribute of data? What the heck is that?

> It's  meaningless until it's part of a relationship with other data.

This makes no sense at all to me. Since data is not going to connect itself
to other data autonomously, you're going to do that yourself. Well, at that
point why do you call it data? It's already got a context, relationships,
etc. So how does the assertion: "[Data] is the evidence of a relationship
between two things" make any sense? How's that different from what some here
call information?

Ziya
Nullius in Verba