DATA AND INFORMATION

Defined as a collection of individual facts or statistics.

• DATA

• INFORMATION

Defined as knowledge gained through study, communication, research, or instruction

• DATA

• INFORMATION

Provided in numerical form, like the weight, volume, or cost of an item.

• QUALITATIVE DATA

• QUANTITATIVE DATA

What are numbers, pictures or words without context known as?

• INFORMATION

• DATA

What are a collection of words, numbers or pictures with meaning known as?

• DATA

• INFORMATION

Which of the following is correct?

• Data leads to information

• Information leads to data

Which of these is not data?

• WORDS

• NUMBERS

• SHOES

What are the main points of data?

• Data is information open to the public

• Data has no meaning

• Data can be made up of letters, numbers, symbols, graphics and sound

What is information?

• Information when processed creates data

• Information is nothing without data

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Descriptive, but non-numerical, like the name, sex, or eye color of a person.

• QUANTITATIVE DATA

• QUALITATIVE DATA