Difference Between Data and Information

Data:

Data are the raw facts and figures.

Or we can say that,

Data is a raw and unorganized fact that can be recordable and required to be processed to make it meaningful.

The term data simply refers to a value or set of values. These values may represent some observations from an experiment, some figures collected during some survey, marks obtained by a student in an examination and so on.

Each piece of data is a little fact that doesn’t mean much on its own. It comes from the Latin word datum, meaning “something given”.

Information:

Information is organized or classified data, which has some meaningful values for the receiver and on the basis of which they can take any decision.

For the decision to be meaningful, the processed data must qualify for the following characteristics:
Timely − Information should be available when required.
Accuracy − Information should be accurate.
Completeness − Information should be complete.

Note: All information is data but all data is not necessarily information.

Example of Data & Information:

• Each student's test score is one piece of data. The average score of a class or of the entire school is information that can be derived from the given data.
• The history of temperature readings all over the world for the past 100 years is data. If this data is organized and analyzed to find that global temperature is rising, then that is information.
• The number of visitors to a website by country is an example of data. Finding out that traffic from the U.S. is increasing while that from Australia is decreasing is meaningful information.

Completeness (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that a contradiction arises if any proposition is introduced that cannot be derived from the axioms of the system More (Definitions, Synonyms, Translation)