As contrasted with data, knowledge which is gathered as a result of processing data
And as you can see in this slide, we then take the raw data and convert it into information.
A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment
The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation
Data to which meaning is assigned, according to context and assumed conventions (National Security Council, 1991, as cited in the HISB draft Glossary of Terms Related to Information Security In Health care Information Systems)
A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber
Data that have been processed into a format that is understandable by its intended audience
Information consists of the facts and figures that are stored and used by a computer program. Pictures are scanned into a form of digital information that computers can recognize. = data
A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offense against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalf of the government
Something that can be recorded, communicated and computed with Information is fungible, which implies that its meaning can be identified regardless of the particulars of the physical realization Thus, information in one realization (such as ink on a sheet of paper) can be easily transferred to another (for example, spoken words) Types of information include deterministic, probabilistic and quantum information Each type is characterized by information units, which are abstract systems whose states represent the simplest information of this type These define the "natural" representation of the information For deterministic information the unit is the bit, whose states are symbolized by and Information units can be put together to form larger systems and can be processed with basic operations acting on a small number of units at a time
One of the basic resources used by technological systems Information is data and facts that have been organized and communicated in a coherent and meaningful manner
data that has been interpreted, translated, or transformed to reveal the underlying meaning; see also data, knowledge Information
Any communication or representation of knowledge such as facts, data, or opinions, in any medium or form, including textual, numerical, graphic, cartographic, narrative, or audio-visual forms
It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand jury
A sworn statement by an authorized official filed in court briefly describing the nature of each charge against a suspect, tantamount to an indictment but without the involvement of a grand jury
Information is a service which you can telephone to find out someone's telephone number. American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Communist Information Bureau information theory geographic information system information processing information retrieval information science