Week Eleven: Building Knowledge 16 May 2008

Lecture

The lecture this week was about data, information and knowledge. the characteristics of data is that it is a factual, non-judgemental, has no meaning and value. the characteristics of information is that it is a rational, has meaning but uncertain value. while knowledge has the characteristic of being very valuable, subjective, experiential and can be judged.



The importance of a data is that it must be un-biased, quantitative and representative. the importance of information must be inform and rational. must have a meaning and can be understandable. while knowledge must be clear, must have a logical conclusion and must be justified from Data and Information.



Tutorial

Data - Data or also known as Datum is information that is in the form of individual facts, statistics or items. A complex definition of data is phyiscal pieces of text on paper, bits and bytes which are stored in eletronic memory (e.g. computer HD(Hard Drive/Tower)) or facts and figures that are in the human brain.Information - is knowledge that is gained from experience, books, article, statistics, research or study.
Information - in gained through the knowledge of study.
Knowledge - is gained through means of study e.g. books, websites, journal articles, education or personal experience. For example you learn how to ride a bike through the knowledge of experience.
Wisdom - is the knowledge of what is true and right. In eduacational contexts wisdom is gained through researching data, collating information and gaining knowledge.


By Qalib


By Qalib





References

Dictionary.com. (2008). Retrieved 19 May, 2008, from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/data

Webopedia.com. (2008). Retrieved 19 May, 2008, from http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/d/data.html

Dictionary.com. (2008). Retrieved 19 May, 2008, from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/information

Dictionary.com. (2008). Retrieved 19 May, 2008, from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/knowledge

Dictionary.com. (2008). Retrieved 19 May, 2008, from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wisdom



In university is it important that you can understand and realize the link between data, information, knowledge and wisdom. The between data, information, knowledge and wisdom is that by researching you gain data, when you collect that data and combine it with your understanding it becomes information. When the data is collected it symbolise information you gain new knowledge and improve it greatly then that it was before. As all three (data, information and knowledge) are understood and completed you become wise as the wisdom of what's right and true and becomes obvious.



Organizations that collect information from their clients or public:

Financial Insitutions (Banks...)

Governments (Centrelink, Census...)

Taxation departments

Educational insitutions (Universities...)

Communications (Telsta...)

The main reason why all these organizations and many others collect information about their clients and general public is because they use this information maybe to keep their systems updated, find out or calculate tax repayments, enrolment for courses/degrees etc. Advertisements (telstra calling your home). Therefore organizations collect information for many reasons.


Readings

The readings for this week were basically two websites that explain the difference between each word. How each meaning represents a different aspects of university life and in general as well. For example when you research you end up with data, you collect that data so that there is meaning from it, when you can understand the concept of the information you gain new knowledge. When you fulfill these three steps you gain wisdom in the specific area you were researching in.