What is Information?

Information is systematically processed data that gives acomprehensive meaning to the recipient.

Information help us making decisions or arriving at conclusions easily. However, to make decisions easily we have to organized
data into information. many efforts have to be taken when making decisions with unorganized data.

In the above example the names of a few pupils of a school and the marks they obtained for two subjects were shown.

Name	Marks of first subject	Marks for the scond subject
Dhanushka	96	85
Tharumini	75	80
Sadali	60	55
Rusiru	70	78
Nilupul	68	65
Chathuranga	64	70
Tharushi	51	71
Malith	80	71

By looking at the above table you will be able to see that it has more information available than the data given in the ealier example. The total of marks each individual pupil obtained and the average marks for the subjects each individual pupil has second can easily be caculated.

Name	Marks of first subject	Marks for the second subject	Total Marks
Dhanushka	96	85	181
Tharumini	75	80	155
Sadali	60	55	115
Rusiru	70	78	148
Nilupul	68	65	133
Chathuranga	64	70	134
Tharushi	51	71	122
Malith	80	71	151

We can arrive at serveral conclusions by the information contaianed in table foe example, we can easily identify the pulil who has obtain the highest marks/or the lowest marks using the total marks of each pupil. In the way we can find the most difficult subject for the pupils by observing the average marks in table. Apart from and average we can calculate more information. For example, values such as mean and mode can be calculated.