Many people use the words data and information to mean the same thing, but they are not.
Data is raw, unprocessed facts and figures which are collected, stored and processed by computers. Data is encoded information.
Information is what we get when data is processed. Information is the meaning that humans give to data.
For example, the digits 251201 are data. Depending on what they represent, they could mean the following items of information:
a date: 25 December 2001
a sum of money: 251,201 Baht or 2,512.01 Baht
a student ID number: 251201
a bank’s sort code: 25-12-01
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