Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Knowledge, data, understanding, and information
In your comments to the last post, several of you mentioned data and understanding. How do you rank understanding, data, knowledge, and information in terms of complexity? Do these terms represent different levels of a common concept, or are they each unique, different not only in complexity, but in essence? Tim Donahue
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You need data and information to understand the knowlege you are absorbing. They can all be connected and use each other to work, so could be considered a common concept. Although, they are all different definitons from one another and can be used independently in certain situations.
I think that you start off with information and data, from an array of sources, and as you take it in, it turns into information. From obtaining said information, you gain at minimum a basic understanding of the data and information you took in.
It is hard to rank understanding, data, knowledge, and information in terms of complexity because they aren't related enough to each other to make a distinction of complexity between them. As I previously posted, knowledge comes from the published information of others, but what makes up that information that others have been able to determine? Information comes from an understanding of the data aquired from, for example, a research project. In this way of thinking, data comes first, followed by understanding that data to be able to publish information that others can analyze and use as their own personal knowledge!
Mike Pasque
i would rank understanding first, knowledge second,information third and date fourth in terms of complexity. in my opinion, when we understand something it becomes a knowledge and to understand we have a lot of information and data resources to make knowledgeable.
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