Samantha's assistant just handed her a report that summarizes and organizes many raw facts and figures into a few key measures that will help her judge whether her department is meeting its key objectives. The summary measures included in the report are information, while the raw facts and figures used to compute these measures are data.

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Data refers to raw, unanalyzed, and unorganized facts and figures. Information is the processed and organized data that can be used for managerial decision making. Since the measures in the report have been summarized into a form Samantha finds useful, they are examples of information.

Samantha's Assistant Just Handed Her a Report That Summarizes and Organizes