Fill-in-the-Gaps: Data, Information and Knowledge

Use the words in the table below to fill-in-the-gaps in the text. Each word may only be used once. NUMBERS APPLIED INFORMATION PREDICT FACTS CONTEXT BASED RULES KNOWLEDGE PROCESSED DECISION MEANING

Data consists of .. and figures which have no to the person looking at them. They could be a list of .. a set of words or even a collection of images. As soon as the data has been it has a and becomes meaningful and is then known as information. For example, this set of data means very little by itself: Emma, Louise, Sam, Eddie, Josh. When you are told that this is a list of the year 7 students who were awarded prizes this year, you now have a context and meaning and so the list becomes ... Knowledge is where . or predictions are to information. This then leads to a probable outcome knowledge. Lets look at an example. You are the owner of a small shop. You have a list of the ice cream sales for the previous three years. You know what the weather forecast is for this summer. on the information that you have for the past three years, you can .. what the sales might be for this year and so make a .. about how much ice cream you should order. That is an example of how the information has become ...

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