Leave your response as a comment on this post by the beginning of class on January 25, 2016. Remember, it only needs to be three or four sentences. For these weekly questions, I’m mainly interested in your opinions, not so much particular “facts” from the class!

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Here is the question:

Give an example in your own experience where you saw raw data turned into information. For example (don’t use this one!), we discussed how the city of Memphis took individual crime information (data) to determine hot spots of criminal activity (information) and lower the crime rate.