Data are messages or signals with uninterpreted content.
A newborn infant sees the same light waves, hears the same sounds and tastes the same foods as an adult but the signals are not yet interpreted very much. This is analogous to listening in on random packets over the Internet. The meaning of the data is not clear except to the sender and receiver of the packets.
Information is communicated when when signals or data have some semantic content. In order to communicate information, the sender and receiver must have previously agreed to the representations of the symbols and the meaning of message content. Thus for example, a child eventually learns that different sounds mean different things and so communication using natural language can begin.
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