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lesedi bimbo commented on Sanat K Chakraborty's blog post 'defining terms'

Dear Sanat The term data means raw facts ,figures and findings that do not portray any concrete meaning to the recipient .But when the data are processed and analyzed in a meaningful manner then they become informative and thus information.

Sep 22, 2010

Sanat K Chakraborty commented on Bonolo Tsiripane's blog post 'What is the difference between information management and knowledge management?'

This debate - what is data, information, knowledge or what is Information management or knowledgment? or yet another, what do we mean when we say we are moving for information society to knowledge society? - is really interesting! My take on the…

Sep 14, 2010

Sanat K Chakraborty commented on Sanat K Chakraborty's blog post 'defining terms'

nondlela, I was thinking thus: Data is a standalone unit. When several units (data) are organised, we get information. And once we have information , we decide how we 'package' or 'use' as you have said.

Sep 14, 2010

nondlela ndabezith commented on Sanat K Chakraborty's blog post 'defining terms'

The term data refers to groups of information that represent the qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables. Data are typically the results of measurements and can be the basis of graphs, images, or observations of a…

Sep 13, 2010

Md Santo commented on Sanat K Chakraborty's blog post 'defining terms'

K, KM and DI - KW MODEL In brief, Data is numerical or symbolic attributes to all physical evidences. Information is the meaning generated from a group of Data. Knowledge on the other hand evolved inside human being as emergent property ( see the…

Aug 12, 2010

Sanat K Chakraborty commented on Sanat K Chakraborty's blog post 'defining terms'

Yes, Nick Milton's factory and pressure rise illustration is interesting, while defining the terms data, information and knowledge. The wiki discussions were illuminating!

Aug 12, 2010

Tom Zeppenfeldt commented on Sanat K Chakraborty's blog post 'defining terms'

You may want to look at this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdzUfHwNCVQ in which Nick Milton explains the difference between data, information and knowledge.

Aug 11, 2010

Ewen Le Borgne commented on Sanat K Chakraborty's blog post 'defining terms'

Hello Sanat, There has been an excellent discussion about this on the KM4Dev list some time back (March or so I believe), starting from the DIKW pyramid. Find the summary of the discussion on the KM4Dev wiki:…

Aug 11, 2010

defining terms

When we use terms like 'data', 'information' and 'knowledge', how do we understand them. At times we use these terms alternately. How do we define each of these terms? These days we often say we are moving from the 'information society to knowledge society', and therefore knowledge management is critical to future economy. I can see a good number of experts in this arena. would anyone please explain what exactly happens in the shift from information to knowledge?SanatSee More

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defining terms

When we use terms like 'data', 'information' and 'knowledge', how do we understand them. At times we use these terms alternately. How do we define each of these terms?

These days we often say we are moving from the 'information society to knowledge society', and therefore knowledge management is critical to future economy. I can see a good number of experts in this arena. would anyone please explain what exactly happens in the shift from information to knowledge?

Sanat

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