Beginning chapters

Question 1

Advantages of Encoding

Answer 1

• Fewer transcription errors /easier to validate

- Less hard disk space needed

Question 2

Disadvantages of Encoding

Answer 2

• Coarsening data - brown hair example - loss of precision

- Value Judgement - meal opinion example - inconsistency

Question 3

Data and example

Answer 3

• Raw facts and figures

- 5.66 6.77 3.44 7.55

Question 4

Information

Answer 4

• Data given a context/meaning by a computer

- Minutes taken to swim a mile is a swimming race

Question 5

Knowledge

Answer 5

• Derived from information by applying rules to it

- First second and third place