Friday 19 October 2012

Information

The processed data is called information. Information is an organized and processed form of data. It is more meaningful than data and is used for making decisions. Data is used as input for the processing and information is the Output of this processing. This information can be used again in some other processing and will be considered as data in that processing.



For example the marks of a student in different subject is data. This data is used to calculate the total marks which is the information. The total marks can be processed again to calculate average marks of the student. In this processing, total marks is used as data and average marks is the information.

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