Week 11

Lecture;
In todays lecture we learnt how to organize the received knowledge, sometimes we have far too much information which is often irelevant and not required, so we must have good methods of how to sort through this. We went over the different options and why they are necessary.

Dictionary Definitions

Data - facts or figures to be processed; evidence, records, statistics, etc. from which conclusions can be inferred; information

Knowledge - An awareness of factual information. Includes actual knowledge (positive or definite), personal knowledge (based on one’s own observation), and constructive knowledge (based on other circumstances).

Information - something told; news; intelligence; word

Wisdom - the quality of being wise; power of judging rightly and following the soundest course of action, based on knowledge, experience, understanding, etc.; good judgment; sagacity

My definitions;

Data - data is information that is real and proven, it is information you can relie on. Data can include things such as statistics, records, facts, figures and evidence. Things that are genuine and not made up.

Knowledge - Knowledge can be either personal, contractual or actual. They are all from different sources but usually knowledge should be genuine like data.

Information - Information is something you can learn, find or hear from a person or own instinct.

Wisdom - Wisdom is how wise a person is or can be. Or the wisdom of a certain source or thing.