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The document discusses the concepts of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom, outlining their definitions and the processes involved in transforming data into knowledge for decision-making. It also provides an overview of the evolution of database technology from the 1960s to the 2000s, highlighting significant developments in data management and mining. The course aims to teach skills related to collecting, organizing, analyzing, and synthesizing data.

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Data Warehousing and

Mining
Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil CAGILTAY
Contents
• Data
• Information
• Knowledge

28-Feb-25 Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil ÇAĞILTAY 2

The Process of transforming data into knowledge
Decision Making

Synthesizing

Analyzing

Summarizing

Organizing

Collecting

28-Feb-25 Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil ÇAĞILTAY 3

WHAT is Data?

28-Feb-25 Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil ÇAĞILTAY 4

WHAT is Data?
• Data is known raw facts about things and events that can be recorded
and have an implicit meaning

• Raw material that information can be derived

• Data are percieved as unstructured, raw facts. It can be useful or not.

28-Feb-25 Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil ÇAĞILTAY 5

WHAT is Data?
• It can exist in any form,
• has no significance beyond its existence usable or not
• It does not have meaning of itself

28-Feb-25 Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil ÇAĞILTAY 6

WHAT is Information?

28-Feb-25 Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil ÇAĞILTAY 7

WHAT is Information?

transformed data that has value for decision making

cumulated facts or data that have been collected and

processed into a meaningful form

data that is organized

28-Feb-25 Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil ÇAĞILTAY 8

WHAT is Knowledge?

28-Feb-25 Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil ÇAĞILTAY 9

WHAT is Knowledge?

•Appropriate collection of information

•It's intent is to be useful
•A deterministic process
•Requires a true cognitive and analytical ability

28-Feb-25 Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil ÇAĞILTAY 10

WHAT is Knowledge?

Collection of the information

Practical use of information
Information combined with understanding and capability
It must be meaningful and useful
Knowledge is a decision mechanism

28-Feb-25 Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil ÇAĞILTAY 11

WHAT is Wisdom?

28-Feb-25 Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil ÇAĞILTAY 12

WHAT is Wisdom?

•Interpolative and probabilistic process

•Cognitive and analytical
•Take knowledge and synthesize new knowledge
from the previously held knowledge

28-Feb-25 Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil ÇAĞILTAY 13

WHAT is Wisdom?

•The difference between understanding and knowledge is

the difference between "learning" and "memorizing".

•Understanding can build upon currently held information,

knowledge and understanding itself.

28-Feb-25 Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil ÇAĞILTAY 14

WHAT is Wisdom?

Asks questions
•to which there is no (easily-achievable) answer,
•to which there can be no humanly-known answer
period.
•the process by which we also discern, or judge,
between right and wrong, good and bad.

28-Feb-25 Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil ÇAĞILTAY 15

The Process of transforming data into
knowledge

Deciding what to
eat where to eat.

Who is the best cook?

28-Feb-25 Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil ÇAĞILTAY 16

The Process of transforming data into
knowledge

28-Feb-25 Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil ÇAĞILTAY 17

What is this?

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28-Feb-25 Prof. Dr. Nergiz Ercil ÇAĞILTAY 18

What is this?