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
Main Author: Dammann, Olaf
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States University of Illinois at Chicago Library 05.03.2019
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ISSN:1947-2579, 1947-2579
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