Data, Information, Evidence, and Knowledge: A Proposal for Health Informatics and Data Science
In this commentary , I revisit and modify Ackoff’s data-information-knowledge-wisdom (DIKW) hierarchy. I suggest to de-emphasize the wisdom part and to insert evidence between information and knowledge (DIEK). This framework defines data as raw symbols, which become information when they are context...
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| Published in: | Online journal of public health informatics Vol. 10; no. 3; p. e224 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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United States
University of Illinois at Chicago Library
05.03.2019
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| ISSN: | 1947-2579, 1947-2579 |
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