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Oct 20, 2012

Knowledge-Data

Data?


What is it? Data is also a name for knowledge. But, we do not use it commonly to describe knowledge. But, actually data is processed information or processed knowledge. Processing also means narrowing things to their exact characteristic. Raw data is just results that are jotted down, which needs to be organized. The organized data in a manner, like a table is called processed data. But, what do we use data for? Data is used for analysis, or used as proof for several things, like proving a hypothesis. Data is collected on Earth daily. For example, we note how much rainfall occurs in a week, from which we can prove how much the average rain varies from the rainfall per day.


If you look at the last blog, you will notice that there was a graph of the number of students in the UK in the high-school, since 1967 till 2006. Education means knowledge. So, if we look at how many students are studying compared to the past, and how much knowledge is spreading. Data is used regularly. Thus, data is important to increase our knowledge.