The process of understanding and being understood; it’s how... - Deepstash

The process of understanding and being understood; it’s how you turn the “raw data” of information into knowledge that has meaning.

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Raw data is unusable, while processed data is key to driving business decisions.

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Self-help literature, like information, exists as raw, uncurated, unexamined information, while social science is like knowledge, beginning with the aggregated data and the processes of thinking, developed and updated over time.

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