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To
be understood data must be given a context.
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To be understood, data
must first be given a context; they must be given relevance to
a larger unit. A single piece of data has no meaning unless there
us context in which to understand it.
Minus 128.6 degrees
Fahrenheit doesn't have much significance until you learn that
this is the coldest recorded temperature in Antartica.
February 1, 2003,
by itself, doesn't have meaning. Knowing it is the date the Space
Shuttle Columbia and its seven crew members were lost during re-entry
supplies the date with some context.
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