From Data to wisdomTabin HasanAsst Professor

American International University- Bangladesh

From data to Wisdom

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T.S. Eliot, "The Rock", Faber & Faber 1934.

Topic content

• Formation of knowledge to wisdom from meaninglessness (data).

• Questions and answers as we proceed.

We are now at meaningless state

From data to Wisdom

This presentation is prepared from the papers

by

1. Gene Bellinger, Durval Castro, Anthony Mills, Data, Information,

Knowledge, and Wisdom, 2004.

2. Jonathan Hey, The Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom Chain: The

Metaphorical link, 2004.

Content of the human mind (DIKW)

• Data: symbols• Information: answers “who, what, where and

when”• Knowledge: answers “how”. Reproducible and

sharable.• Understanding: application of “why”. A

synthesized new knowledge.• Wisdom: evaluated understanding. A non-

deterministic, non-probabilistic process.

Classified by Russell Ackoff, 1989

Knowledge formed out of more

connectedness

Knowledge formed out of more

connectedness• Data: Earth

• Information: Revolves around the sun

• Information: It takes 3651/4 days to complete a cycle

• Information: The orbit is elliptical

• Knowledge: Ecosystem

• Future: Where is the destiny? Can we survive green house effect?

The Knowledge Pyramid

Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

WISDOM

KNOWLEDGE

INFORMATION

DATA

Adding data to form information

More connectedness

How much is enough for human to

extract the information?

Knowledge to Wisdom

• To a three year old baby: Mama, it’s bird.

• To a ten year old child: Daddy, it’s a dove.

• To 17 year old teenage: Wow, it’s my freedom.

• To me: Where is the Life we have lost in living?

Thank you