How about this response from one of my colleagues at the end of a long
day:
Data is raw information. Digested raw it gives one indigestion, cooked
to a recipe it can provide a banquet.
and another wrote:
You can't have information without data. Claude Shannon should, of
course, have the last word:
http://www.merz-akademie.de/projekte/george.legrady/theory/noise/shannon.htm
Sarah Carter
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Please respond to Adrian
Smith
Data gathered intelligently may become information.
Information processed intelligently may become knowledge.
adrian
