5. Information Example 2

information example 2

Data

In this example we started off with a list of things which could have been many different things from flavours of milk shake to paint colours for a wall. So at this stage, the list is definitely data.

Context

We then find out that the data is in fact different tubs of ice-cream which was sold yesterday. We can safely assume from that context that the data is in fact the flavours of the tubs sold.

The data still needs to be processed to become information.

Processing

Because we have different instances of the same thing i.e. many tubs of chocolate ice-cream being sold and many tubs of vanilla ice-cream being sold, it would be useful to find out which was the most popular flavour sold yesterday.

The processing could take the form of creating a bar chart. This would instantly tell us which flavour sold the most yesterday.

The processing could even include charting yesterday's sales against the sales for the previous week or month.