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On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > Peter Hunsberger wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Costello, Roger L.<costello@mitre.org >> > wrote: >>> What is Data? >> Data is information that lacks context. > > Or data is information fragmented to optimize logical processing, > rather than assembled for human comprehension. > > I think the William Kent book is probably a better idea than > anything we'll come up with here, though. +1 I think Bill's book can be reasonably summarized: "No matter how complicated you think modeling reality with data is, it's more complicated than that."
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