DIFFERENT BETWEEN DATA & INFORMATION
| Parameters | Data | Information |
| Description | Qualitative Or Quantitative Variables which helps to develop ideas or conclusions. | It is a group of data which carries news and meaning. |
| Etymology | Data comes from a Latin word, datum, which means “To give something.” Over a time “data” has become the plural of datum. | Information word has old French and middle English origins. It has referred to the “act of informing.”. It is mostly used for education or other known communication. |
| Format | Data is in the form of numbers, letters, or a set of characters. | Ideas and inferences |
| Represented in | It can be structured, tabular data, graph, data tree, etc. | Language, ideas, and thoughts based on the given data. |
| Meaning | Data does not have any specific purpose. | It carries meaning that has been assigned by interpreting data. |
| Interrelation | Information that is collected | Information that is processed. |
| Feature | Data is a single unit and is raw. It alone doesn’t have any meaning. | Information is the product and group of data which jointly carry a logical meaning. |
| Dependence | It never depends on Information | It depended on Data. |
| Measuring unit | Measured in bits and bytes. | Measured in meaningful units like time, quantity, etc. |
| Support for Decision making | It can’t be used for decision making | It is widely used for decision making. |
| Contains | Unprocessed raw factors | Processed in a meaningful way |
| Knowledge level | It is low-level knowledge. | It is the second level of knowledge. |
| Characteristic | Data is the property of an organization and is not available for sale to the public. | Information is available for sale to the public. |
| Dependency | Data depends upon the sources for collecting data. | Information depends upon data. |
| Example | Ticket sales on a band on tour. | Sales report by region and venue. It gives information which venue is profitable for that business. |
| Significance | Data alone has no significance. | Information is significant by itself. |
| Meaning | Data is based on records and observations and, which are stored in computers or remembered by a person. | Information is considered more reliable than data. It helps the researcher to conduct a proper analysis. |
| Usefulness | The data collected by the researcher, may or may not be useful. | Information is useful and valuable as it is readily available to the researcher for use. |
| Dependency | Data is never designed to the specific need of the user. | Information is always specific to the requirements and expectations because all the irrelevant facts and figures are removed, during the transformation process. |
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