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Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom

What is the difference between Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom?

Data: Anything represented in digital form, including non-executing knowledge stored in digital form.

Information: The momentary extraction of structure from data that modifies the perspective to the interpreter by creating new data or insight. Information only exists at the time of active data interpretation. Information creates the context that reveals discontinuities between what is known and what is new, triggering the need for learning.

Knowledge: Rules, algorithms, interpreters (such as pattern recognizers) or other mechanisms, including those that exist in the human brain (regardless of our ability to describe those mechanisms) that transform data into information. Knowledge may be changed by its interaction with information.

Wisdom: Specialized knowledge that acts to filter/active the knowledge that is best used to extract the appropriate information from data. Like, knowledge, wisdom may also be changed by the experience of its use through positive or negative reinforcement.

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more on knowledge in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=knowledge