structured data. It provides context for data and enables decision making process. For example, a single customer’s sale at a restaurant is data – this becomes information when the business is able to identify the most popular or least popular dish.1
More technically, information can be thought of as the resolution of uncertainty; it answers the question of "What an entity is" and thus defines both its essence and the nature of its
characteristics. The concept of information has different meanings in different contexts.2 Thus the concept becomes synonymous to notions of constraint,
communication, control, data, form, education, knowledge, meaning,
understanding, mental stimuli, pattern, perception, proposition, representation, and entropy.
