Information is data that is available to humans though the normal means of perception like sight, hearing, touch and maybe others.
by berkut1337 October 09, 2003
by Sunny Dancer May 16, 2015
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.
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.
by Α January 14, 2022
by millie05 June 22, 2008
A person whom the government pay to snitch on people. Sometimes they work as double agents informing drug houses of a comming raid.
by Photomagic3000 March 24, 2006
by The plug May 14, 2014