Data is a gathered body of Facts
Data is raw content or inputs obtained by any means. For example finding out the customer's requirement by means of Market Research
Data can exist in a variety of forms as numbers, symbols, text on a piece of paper, bytes stored in electronic memory or facts stored in a person's mind.
There are many ways of getting data and the most popular technique is Data Mining. By data mining information can be visualized and knowledge can be discovered. (FAYYAD..et al,2002)
The word knowledge has various meaning, knowledge at its simplest level is the knowing something or be familiar with the facts, this term is commonly referred to as "Know About" (NICKOLS,2000). Knowledge at next level means the ability to grasp the facts or understand the methods, techniques and apply them suitably when required, this term is commonly referred to as "Know how". Knowledge also means collection or accumulation of facts, methods, techniques etc.. and these type of knowledge are usually found in the form of books, journals, formulas.
References:
Information Visualization in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
By Usama M. Fayyad, Georges G. Grinstein, Andreas Wierse
Published by Morgan Kaufmann, 2002
ISBN 1558606890, 9781558606890
Website: Book Preview 30-01-2009
The knowledge in KM
Fred Nickols
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Website: Book Preview 30-01-2009
The knowledge in KM
Fred Nickols
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I agree with you Abhijith, I think KID's are all interconnected. For example, knowledge is obtained from data and information BUT how can we determine data and information generates knowledge. This is like for example which came first, the egg or the chicken?
ReplyDeleteKID Stuff`s so intertwined, that differentiating among them is dicey, but you`ve given it a simplified defination which i agree with.
ReplyDeleteKnowledge really can be defined as the "know about". I heard a saying which goes as thus "the difference between not performing and performing well is knowledge. so to reinvent and better an organisation knowledge is needed
i mentioned knowledge auditing in my article, which means knowledge deleting and adding new
ReplyDeleteAbhijit
ReplyDeleteDescription of KID are nice and I agree with your definitions. Perhaps you can expand on these terms by giving more expample of their use from your personal experience and also include some description from the perspectives of an organisation of your choice. You can read on the changing nature of KID from the following link:
http://xplore.k4b.net/blog/myResearch/Publications/Polymorphic.
Ref:
Moteleb A. & Bakry, W., (2004), ‘Polymorphic Nature of Knowledge: Towards a knowledge creation model’. Proceedings of the conference of Information Science, Technology and Management (CISTM2004).