miércoles, 15 de abril de 2009

Data and information.

Data refers to information or facts usually collected as the result of experience, observation or experiment. Data may consist of numbers, words, or images, particularly as measurements or observations of a set of variables.
In the other hand, Information as a concept has a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, etc.
As summarize, could say that information is a more general concept, and data is more specify.

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