What is information, data, knowledge and intelligence? And understand the relationship between them.

Hello, the concepts of informatization, digitalization, digitalization and intelligence emerge one after another. However, there is no authoritative definition in the industry, and everyone has different opinions. There is a trend of "letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend". Especially for non-IT professionals, the cognition of these concepts is often very confusing.

This paper introduces the related definitions of digitalization, informatization, digitalization and intelligence, and analyzes the connections and differences between them in combination with the definition of organization and the development trend of the industry, so as to help readers better understand the relationship between them and help enterprises to carry out digital transformation and upgrading.

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The relationship among data, information, knowledge and wisdom

IBM DIKW data value system

As can be seen from the figure, data is the lowest concept in the knowledge hierarchy, and data is the source of information, knowledge and wisdom. The information needs of different roles in an enterprise are different, and it is necessary to meet the information needs of supervisors at all levels.

Data: It is an abstract representation of the quantity, attributes, location and their relationships of objective things with conventional keywords, which is suitable for manual or natural preservation, transmission and processing in this field.

Information: It is a timely, meaningful, logical, processed and valuable data stream for decision-making.

Knowledge: With the participation of people, information is mined by induction, deduction and comparison, so that its valuable part can be precipitated and combined with the existing human knowledge system to transform these valuable information into knowledge.

Wisdom: it is the ability of human beings to analyze, compare and infer the problems caused by the movement of the material world according to the existing knowledge, and to find solutions according to the obtained information. The result of this ability is to dig out the valuable part of information and make it a part of knowledge architecture.

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Data and digitization

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Definition of data

In the era of big data, we can realize the importance of data, but do we really understand the relevant definitions of data? Institutions are defined as follows:

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Wikipedia (a multilingual encyclopedia collaboration project based on wiki technology is also an online encyclopedia written in different languages, whose goal and purpose are to provide freedom for all mankind) is an open encyclopedia.

As early as 1946, the word "data" was first used to clearly express "computer information that can be transmitted and stored".

According to Wikipedia, the meaning of data is no longer limited to the computer field, but a general description of all qualitative or quantitative. for reference only