Date: 20-09-2023 AS IT 9626 (Data and Information)
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1 (a) Tick the four most accurate statements regarding data and information.
Knowledge is remembering a set of facts.
5, 10, 15, 20 are examples of information.
Knowledge is just learning items of data by rote.
Knowledge never requires the understanding of information.
Knowledge is the use of information to solve problems.
Information is data that needs to be processed to give it meaning.
Understanding that 25 is the fifth answer in the five times table requires
knowledge.
Tacit knowledge is knowledge that is easy to pass on to someone else.
A list of all the books written by Shakespeare is just raw data.
Being aware that Pride and Prejudice was not written by Shakespeare requires
knowledge.
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(b) Tick the four most accurate statements referring to the meaning of data and information.
Data consists of raw facts and figures.
Information when processed becomes data.
Data is a collection of text, numbers, symbols, images or sound.
Data does not need to have meaning to become information.
Knowing that 159.5, 164.3, 162.9 and 172.3 are the heights in centimetres of
pupils in a school makes it a set of data.
Data cannot be interpreted until it is organised.
Data is never represented by binary in a computer.
Data must have a context to become information.
Data is the result of processing information, usually by computer.
A group of facts which are used in context is called a set of data.
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(c) Tick the four most accurate statements regarding the quality of information.
The more information that is collected the higher its quality.
Data collected from a third party always becomes high quality information.
The accuracy of the information collected affects its quality.
Information which costs a lot to collect is always high quality information.
A great deal of detail can sometimes lead to poor quality information.
Irrelevant information leads to poor quality information.
The problems arising from a lack of good quality information can be overcome by
making your filters more refined.
Good quality of information is always obtained from small groups of people.
Information collected 100 years ago is always good quality information.
The more complete the collected information is, the better its quality.
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2 A collection of data could be the following:
1989, Paolo, √, ₹, ≠, OR
(a) Explain, by defining the term ‘data’, why this is just a collection of data and is not information.
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(b) Select three of these items of data. Explain what information each item might represent and
how it could be used.
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3 Paulo is carrying out a study on the level of noise caused by traffic in the streets around his home.
He will need data for his study.
(a) Describe what is meant by direct data.
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(b) Describe how Paulo could use direct data sources for his study.
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4 Some students have been asked by their teacher to carry out a study. They will collect data about
the families living in five streets close to their school. They will carry out the study using direct data
sources and will not use records from the 2020 census which are kept at the city hall.
Describe the suitability of using direct data sources rather than the census data for the study.
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