Information Data

Information is data that has been processed, organized, and structured. It puts data into context and facilitates decision-making. A single customer's sale at a restaurant, for example, is data; when the firm can identify the most popular or least popular meal, it becomes information.

Data is a collection whereas information is a context for those facts. While data is unstructured and unorganized, information is. Individual data points are occasionally unrelated. Data is mapped out to provide a big-picture understanding of how everything fits together. Data is worthless on its own. Individual facts, statistics, or pieces of information, frequently numerical, are referred to as data. A group of values of qualitative or quantitative variables regarding one or more persons or objects is referred to as data, whereas a datum is a single value of a single variable.