Personal Knowledge Management:  Analyzing Information

This entails the challenge of "tweaking" meaning out of data and information.  Integral to analyzing information is the development and application of models, often quantitative, to “educe” relationships out of the data.  In some fields, tools such as electronic spreadsheets and statistical software provide the means to analyze information, but the human element is central in framing the models that are embodied in such software. 

Ways of Analyzing and Utilizing Information:
Frameworks and models
Quality control:  what is valuable and reliable?
Gathered too much, evaluation 
Graphical representation
Rating systems, rankings of value
New timeliness, accuracy, authority, bias checks
Appropriateness to latest thesis/problem
Critical look at sources
Moving from samples to inferences
One must gather twice as much information as will use
Writing abstracts
Summarizing reviews of literature
Summarizing quantitative data
Creating charts and graphs for analysis


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