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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Data Hierarchy

From data to information to knowledge to wisdom, data is tedious and wisdom is abstract if they are treated like they exist by themselves. However, when placed in a specific context, a business process or other situations, data is concrete because it represents facts. The meaning of wisdom would be neatly framed and understood. This is equivalent to viewing the data hierarchy from the top down:

Wisdom is knowledge viewed from an appropriate perspective. Knowledge is information related to problems or decisions. Information is data placed in and presented for a specific context. And data is the description of reality or facts relative to a specific setting.

Wisdom is knowledge placed in