Week Eleven log UPC0004

Data Information & Knowledge

The lecture

For week eleven's lecture, the topic of data information and knowledge was discussed in further detail, and answered a range of underlying questions I had when first introduced to the subject.

The lecture discussed the definitions of data, information and knowledge, the characteristics of each, and also the importance, which wasn't really all that surprising because its just common knowledge to know how important data information must be.

The lecture slides went on to show diagrams of the relationships between data, information and knowledge, which i found helpful be cause diagrams are a great visual aid and makes things a whole lot clearer to me, and i can absorb information much more beneficially.

Although i found parts of this lecture helpful, like the use of diagrams, i found most of the other parts just told me either common knowledge, or things that I already know and have learnt about before, but i guess this lecture helped me to remember these things and brush up on my data information and knowledge.

The tutorial

This weeks tutorial was simply an extension of what was discussed in the lecture, except this time, the workshop asked us to give examples of specific words that i were unsure of, which was helpful to me, because once i researched their meaning and wrote them out I could gain the best understanding of the word possible.

The workshop also asked to construct our own graph of how we interpret the connection between data, information, knowledge and wisdom, which was extremely helpful, because it again reinforced the subject we were learning, and because I constructed the diagram myself I could understand it the way i wanted to, and the way I see it, instead of how someone else does.

Workshop 11-Accessing and Organising Knowledge

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a)Data:Is the representation of concepts or other entities, fixed in or on a medium in a form suitable for communication, interpretation, or processing by human beings or by automated systems (Wellisch, 1996).

Information:Is related to meaning or human intention. In computational systems information is the contents of databases, the web etc. In human discourse systems information is the meaning of statements as they are intended by the speaker/writer and understood/misunderstood by the listener/reader.

Knowledge:Is knowing, familiarity gained by experience; person's range of information; a theoretical or practical understanding of; the sum of what is known.

Wisdom:Wisdom is the ability, developed through experience, insight and reflection, to discern truth and exercise good judgment. Wisdom is sometimes conceptualized as an especially well developed form of common sense.

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By Understanding the relationship between Data, information, knowledge and wisdom, it is quite easy to see that you can't have one without the other, and each is as important as the other.

They all link in together, so to be able to have wisdom and knowledge it is essential to gain information from data, and from that, you can also have an added bonus of 'understanding'.

4.

1-Organ Donor-It is essential to gain data from organ donor's so that it is ensured the organs being donated are suitable.

2-Australian Bureau of Statistics-The basis of this organisation is statistics and Data, so of course they would need to collect data from the public.

3-Voting polls-When having a vote for something in particular the only way is by using people and collecting their information.

4-Doctors-Without speaking to the patient, and gaining their information as to what is wrong with them, a doctor cannot help them or prescribe them the right medication.

5-Blood Donor-Much the same as the organ donor, there is a checklist to see that the person doning their blood are suitable candidates.

Readings

1.The First reading gave a more detailed explanation as to what was discussed in the lecture and what was need in the tutorial task.

I found this website very helpful, because not only does it contain a lot of useful information, but the person writing this speaks from their point of view, and what their understanding is of the relationship between data, information and knowledge, which helps me to understand it a lot more clearly, because it is as if they are telling it to me in person.

2.The second reading was a useful web page for uni students as it is like an online tutorial, but with the whole presentation of the page i found it a little bit confusing and hard to follow, but i did like how the page was a bit more user friendly and had quizzes, assignments and helpful handouts.