What are data and information ?

Friends, in this article you will learn what are data and information in the most simplest way.

What is Data ?

Data means raw facts . It means anything we type on the keyboard. It can be a letter, number, special character etc. data may or may not have a meaning.

For example a,b,c,……………………………z

1,2,3………………………..9,

@, $, %, #, &, * etc.

What is Information ?

arranagement of data in an organized manner is called information. So when we arrange data to convey a meaning it becomes an infomation. Information must have a meaning.

For example, I am an Indian.

The above sentence is an information but each word like ‘i’, ‘am’, ‘an’, ‘Indian’ in the sentence is a data.

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