What is information?

Question

What is information?

Answer 1

Information, in general terms, is data plus conceptual commitments and interpretations. In other words, it is the context in which data is taken.

Answer 2

information is the passing on of one person's knowledge to another.

Answer 3

any pattern in any medium which represents the state of a given system and which may be capabable of being decoded/interpreted or not depending on the ability of the processor to so do.

Answer 4

my own definition would be something like:

something that is learned, whether it be true or false

Answer 5

Information must inform or convey an idea.

Not all talk is informative.

Answer 6

It is data which has meaning.

E.g. the number 1.47 on its own is meaningless (data), but if I tell you that is someone's height in metres then it is meaningful (information).

Answer 7

Information are meanings that are driven from Data.

for example 1 pepsi was sold in new york is piece of data

but sales of pepsi shows 10% increase compare to same time last year, is a piece of information

Answer 8

John von Neumann defined it as "that  which reduces uncertainty."