During the course I had sometimes the feeling that data and information were mixed. In the military there is an intelligence directorate (J2), which has the task to analyse the environment (terrain, enemy etc.). Here data is symbols or facts out of context; thus it is not directly or immediately meaningful. It is completely unprocessed. Information is data that is placed in some sort of interpretive context, thus acquiring at least some meaning and value; but it’s not yet processed. Intelligence results from puting information in an actual context, processing it.