[Sigia-l] data as information?

[Listera]

Dan Saffer:

> Information is the creation of something meaningful from otherwise
> senseless bits of data.

I thought I took my meds today, but if "[Data] is the evidence of a
relationship between two things" how's that fundamentally different from
"the creation of something meaningful from otherwise senseless bits of
data"? Data is either "meaningless" and devoid of relationships, as you
claim, or data signifies relationship and context, as the assertion above
indicates. How is it both? And how's that any different than information?

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?

Ziya
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