The meaning of DATA200: 

The same words as data have easily 200 times more value than as isolated text. Recent history has proven that; we have gone to war and been successfully attacked in large part because of this critical difference.  And, the same information properly inserted into a well-defined Data Warehouse as meta-data is thousands of times more useful.

This is what Wikipedia says about data:

Data and information are often used interchangeably; however data becomes information when it is viewed in context or in post-analysis [2]. While the concept of data is commonly associated with scientific research, data is collected by a huge range of organizations and institutions, including businesses (e.g., sales data, revenue, profits, stock price), governments (e.g., crime rates, unemployment rates, literacy rates) and non-governmental organizations (e.g., censuses of the number of homeless people by non-profit organizations).
Data is measured, collected and reported, and analyzed, whereupon it can be visualized using graphs, images or other analysis tools. Data as a general concept refers to the fact that some existing information or knowledge is represented or coded in some form suitable for better usage or processing. Raw data ("unprocessed data") is a collection of numbers or characters before it has been "cleaned" and corrected by researchers. Raw data needs to be corrected to remove outliers or obvious instrument or data entry errors (e.g., a thermometer reading from an outdoor Arctic location recording a tropical temperature). Data processing commonly occurs by stages, and the "processed data" from one stage may be considered the "raw data" of the next stage. Field data is raw data that is collected in an uncontrolled "in situ" environment. Experimental data is data that is generated within the context of a scientific investigation by observation and recording. Data has been described as the new oil of the digital economy.[3][4]

Information and Data are not identical!

Some thoughts about Data:

Data is an American Invention: See my comments page.