4. What is Data? Write the differences between Data and Information?

What is Data? Write the differences between Data and Information?               

Answer: A primary collected knowledge which is not arranged is called data. In computer science, data is anything in a form suitable for use with a computer Data is a raw material for solving a particular problem. Data can be collected in non-sequenced form. It is the combination of character number and symbols collected fora specific purpose. Distinct pieces of information usually formatted in a special way. All software is divided into two general categories: data and programs. Programs are collections of instructions for manipulating data.

Difference between data information:

Data	Information
Data is raw, unorganized facts that need to When data is processed, organized be processed. Data can be something structured or presented in a given context simple and seemingly random and useless so as to make it useful, it is called until it is organized.	Primary collected knowledge which is not Which data are arranged and easily to arrange is called data understand is called information
Primary collected knowledge which is not arrange is called data	Which data are arranged and easily to understand is called information
Primary knowledge is data	After processing data is information
It is not arranged	It is arranged
It is not always meaningful	It is most meaningful
Understanding is difficult	Understanding is easy
Data may not be in order	Information should be in order
A small part of information is data	Multiple Data makes a information
Each student's test score is one piece of data	The Class average score or the school’s average score is the information that can be concluded from the given data.