DEFINITION OF DATA-BASED INFORMATION
VERİ TEMELLİ ENFORMASYON TANIMI

Author : Abdurrahman Cihad KAYADUMAN -- Harun Hilmi POLAT
Number of pages : 326-336

Abstract

What the man needs to continue his life more easily against information redundancy and data volume that occured as a result of devoloping communication and information technologies which dominate human life are accurate methods and abilities he will use in reaching the information, obtaining, acquiring, separating, making it useful and verifying it, that is to say having it in a healthy way. Even though defining everything as data enables people to have a fast data communication through data transmitters, stockers, readers, it also causes to get stuck with a huge data stack. Today, efforts to give a meaning to data stack continue in popular media, business life and computer science. This situation that is called "petabyte age" by the magazine Wired has already showed that it has the capacity to change the science, medicine, business life and technology as enabling them to find answers in basic questions as achieving to give a meaning to enormous amount of data. In this study, eliminative views on some diverginces about giving a meaning to information have been compiled and tried to put them on a consistent order within a theoretical framework. Several comments listed about the necessity of agreeing on a compromise on the common terminology of the data science that will cooperate on acquiring information in a healthy way, computer science, statistics, graphic design and what the concept exactly represents. In the study that pointing at some studies that used information synonymous to knowledge have explanations about why this usage is wrong. It's emphasized that some usages especially like information society, data processing society and information design contradict with commonly approved theoretical approach. In the article detailing this theoretical approach called "Vebb Hierarchy" there are also many examples from many academic studies. In the study where misinformation and disinformation concepts have been mentioned, it's highligted that existence of information as a well formed data could present diversity. The questions like accuracy, inaccuracy of information or whether it is an intentional or unintentional mistake have been tried to be answered too.

Keywords

Information, data, knowledge, graphic, information design

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