Saturday 12 September 2015

Computers Studies made Simple: Information And Data


Information And Data

Data:

This means a collection of  raw facts and figures.

Raw means the facts have not been processed yet to give them a meaningful form.

Data is collected from different sources for different purposes.

It may consist of numbers,letters,pictures,symbols etc

Information:

This term refers to a processed form of data to get a meaning ful outcome.

The information is used for various important applications.

Data Processing/Computing

This is the process of converting data into a meaningful form/ information .

It consists of the following steps:

Input / Data

Processing


Output/Information


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