Week Eleven Blog Entry

Data Information and Knowledge

Lecture Summary

This weeks lecture discussed the difference between data, information and Knowledge, but also the connection between them. The characteristics, importance and examples for each data, info and knowledge were explained. There is a relationship between each of these as you start with the data, which is combined and compared to produce information, which in return with study result is knowledge of that subject. That was explained into detail in the lecture. There was also strategies for assignment work that used three headings to help me along and how to move forward with whatever data i have collected.

Workshop Entry

This workshop discussed how to build your knowledge. The task was to look on a online dictionary to find the meanings of data, information and Knowledge. I then create a graphical representation between the meanings. I then have to say why the relationship between data, info and knowledge will help me along with my studies. Finally i then have make a list of five organisations that collect information from their clients or public.

Activities

1. Information- applies to data that are gathered in any way, as by Reading, observing, hearsay, etc. and does not necessarily connote validity.
Knowledge- Applies to any body of facts gathered by study, observation, etc. and to the ideas inferred from these facts, and connotes an understanding of what is known.




3. Data is a necessity for knowledge. Without the data there is nothing to be collaborated and produced into information, where people cam can and retain the information to become knowledge where they are able to regurgitate the info in an exam or an everyday conversation.



4. 1. Post Office

2. Government.

3. Marketing- Census

4. Banks

5.Water companies


Reading One
'' Data, Information . Knowledge and Wisdom''.

This article explains the relationship between data, info, knowledge, understanding and wisdom. The website discusses what each of the five headings mean and how they connect with one another through the example of rain

Reading Two
'' Information Literacy Tutorial'

This website includes a quiz that assists in helping you develop mu information literacy skills. It provides quizzes on the production of knowledge, the organisation of knowledge, from thesis to search strategy, fundamentals of online searching, using reference resources, citing your sources, copyright and fair use. Each heading has a lesson written on that topic. You then do the quiz and attempt the assignment after that.

Reading Three
'' Data, Information and Knowledge''

This website shows how data, info and knowledge are connected , through an example of how the Bureau of Meteorology collects data on the temperature. They explain that if you collect the temperature at the same time everyday at the same place you are then able to collaborate it all to produce information. By knowing summer is hotter than winter we can take this and absorb it then it is added to our knowledge as we now know to wear shorts in summer rather than winter. The second section is on questions on why the information is gathered. There are three questions asked

What is it?
Who is collecting?
Why are they collecting it?

This section discussed why data is collected and transferred into knowledge.