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.
