Define Information? discuss difference between data and information.

What is Information?

Information:

    "When an instruction enter to computer system and processed it to become information"

• It is meaningful form.
• It is an organized form.
• It is used for Directly decision making.
• It depend upon Data.

    The concept becomes synonymous to notions of constraint, communication, control data, form, education, knowledge, meaning, understanding, mental stimuli, pattern, perception, representation and entropy.

Difference between data and information.

Data:

• Data is an unorganized form.
• Data is meaningless form of any instruction.
• Data cannot depend on information.
• It is measured in bits.
• Decision cannot be making directly.

    Example is a students test marks

Information:

• Information is organized form.
• Information is meaningful form.
• Information about data.
• It is measured in meaningful units, like time and quantity.
• Decision can be making directly.

    Example:  The average marks of a class is the information derived from data.