On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> Peter Hunsberger wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Costello, Roger L.<
>> > wrote:
>>> What is Data?
>> Data is information that lacks context.
>
> Or data is information fragmented to optimize logical processing,
> rather than assembled for human comprehension.
>
> I think the William Kent book is probably a better idea than
> anything we'll come up with here, though.
+1
I think Bill's book can be reasonably summarized: "No matter how
complicated you think modeling reality with data is, it's more
complicated than that."
