Data warehousing LO8612

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I am starting to feel like Micheal's twin <grin>

> Information overload
>
> Michael McMaster writes
>
> "We don't have information overload - by definition of information -
> we have data overload. Or merely noise."
>
> What definition of INFORMATION makes 'information overload' an
> oxymoron?

Because information is meaning, and data is just undigested stuff. When
you are overloaded you no longer make meaning, all you have is data,
undigested.

Robert Bacal, CEO, Institute For Cooperative Communication
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