Meaning Making: Data vs Knowledge
In short, information is a flow of messages , while knowledge is created and organized by the very flow of information, anchored in the commitment and beliefs of its holder.
Starting with the first line about a ‘flow of messages’ - messages can be redefined as raw data from unorganized stimulations (sight, sound, touch, taste, smell, & feelings).
So this slightly paraphrased quote from?Ikujiro Nonaka’s?articles and books in 1994 about?knowledge Creation, is another early piece in my?tapestry?of ideas explaining meaning making. Nonaka and Takeuchi’s books, lectures and teaching spoke quite a lot about the major differences between information and knowledge. They referenced and cited a multitude of authors from various disciplines to back this up. In essence basically inferred that information is just the flow of messages. (Which I will later break down into sensations). Whereas knowledge is what we do with these various pieces of information and how we combine them and organize them.?[more about this quote]
Maybe you’ve seen these images or diagram before.
It is a simple yet enlightening illustration of the difference between information and knowledge and how we cluster certain information together to come up with knowledge.