[Sigia-l] data as information?

[Ed Housman]

Data rides on noise, or is hidden inside noise, which is the backdrop
for a signal, I think.

--Ed

--- Eric Scheid <eric.scheid at ironclad.net.au> wrote:

> On 30/6/05 12:25 PM, "Listera" <listera at rcn.com> wrote:
> 
> > I just find "[Data] is the evidence of a relationship between two things"
> > completely wrongheaded, within the data -> info spectrum.
> 
> > Is there something *between* data and information?
> 
> A big grey fuzzy line. Get over it.
> 
> Meanwhile, stop thinking that data is the most primitive classification.
> Think instead noise->data->information, where the attribute that
> characterises the subset of noise which is data is that those items are the
> evidence (but not the description) of a relationship between two things.
> 
> Also, think in sets and subsets. Thus one thing *might* be both data /and/
> information (and knowledge etc).
> 
> e.
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