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Similarly to semantics, the relations between information and data are also counterintuitive and somewhat confusing: In the everyday usage the term ‘information’ is used interchangeably with ‘data’ and we tend to think that more data leads to more information; and yet, in the context of Shannon’s information theory this is not necessarily the case.
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Haken, H., Portugali, J. (2015). Information Versus Data. In: Information Adaptation: The Interplay Between Shannon Information and Semantic Information in Cognition. SpringerBriefs in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11170-4_2
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