Re: Data vs. Information

From: Alex Fatkulin <afatkulin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 12:06:55 -0400
Message-ID: <49d668000909050906h22d47358we9937053fc235859_at_mail.gmail.com>

I can think of data/information in a context of a book.

The book itself is data but it's content is useless unless you read it at which point it turns into information.

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:36 AM, chet justice<chet.justice_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently tried to make a case for views, in the last line of the post I
> wrote:
>
>> Records in a table typically constitute data. Tables, joined together, in
>> a view, tend to turn that data into information.

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