Week Eleven, Building Knowledge, 16th October 2007

Lecture

Today the lecture was about Data, Information and Knowledge. The lecture began by giving a brief definition of Data, Information and Knowledge. Each had a different characteristics in and how they are different. As the lecture proceeded these each are connected as Information must be relevant to the Data and Knowledge must be a justification of both Data and Information. These three can be Incorporated with the assignments using different strategies.

Reading
The reading consisted in a complete explanation of Inforamtion, Data and Knowledge to expand on the breif explanation in the lecture today. It also consisted more information on how it these can relate to Assignments and help a student gather information.

Workshop

The workshop today asked me to find dictionary meanings of these terms: Data, Knowledge and Information.

Data - Is a form of factual information which has no bias, and has no intrinsic meaning or value.

Infromation - Has no uncertain value, but has strong meaning and it is permanent and it summarizes everything.

Knowledge - Is extremely valuable and can be subjected to bias it can be general or specific.

the next part to this was to draw a representation ot these term which is seen below

As shown on the diagram Data any Information are connected since having data is pretty mush useless without the information. By having knowledge of these two you summarise both information and data. This has been proved to be very useful when gathering information for a student, since finding data and having information helps me gain knowledge and understanding of it.

The last activity for this workshop includes 5 organisations that might collect data, information and knowledge.

1. Fast Food Restuarants - They collect it for things such as records of sales, money earned in a month if the restuarant is profiting or losing profits
2. Banks - Collect information on their customers such their withdrawal and deposits monthly.
3. Retail Outlet (Coles/Myer/K-Mart) - Obtain information on stocks also the same as a restaurants check for profits.
4. Schools - Check records of students and how well they are going with their studies.
5. Medical - Medical records shows history of patients to help treat patients.