Information
Information is an uncountable noun
✗ Consumers can find informations about products and services.
✓ Consumers can find information about products and services.
✗ TV helps people to get an important information.
✓ TV helps people to get important information.
✗ Their website provides many informations about courses you can
take.
✓ Their website provides a lot of information about courses you can
take.
✓ Their website provides a great deal of information about courses you
can take.
Characteristics of Information
Actions with Information
INFORMATION + NOUN
What is information?
knowledge or facts about someone or something?
raw and unorganized facts are data
Data is always interpreted, by a human or machine, to derive meaning.
So, data is meaningless.
Data contains numbers, statements, and characters in a raw form.
So what is Information?
Information is a set of data which is processed,
structured, or presented in a meaningful way.
Information is
language,
ideas,
thoughts
based on the given data.
Data vs Information
Summer camp
Name
Jane
John
Mike
Nick
Sophia
Wendy
Age
City of Origin Hobby
13
New York
Reading
14
Chicago
Boating
15
Seattle
Skiing
14
New York
Skateboarding
13
San Francisco
Horse riding
14
Boston
Fashion shows
How do people/living beings exchange
information?
Information technology (IT)
is the use of computers
to create,
process,
store,
retrieve,
and exchange
all kinds of data and information