ABSTRACT

Digital technologists concern themselves with data - conventional representations of facts or ideas - and with machines for storing, transforming, and transmitting it. Although computing professionals also concern themselves with digital technology, they focus primarily on people and information-the meaning that people give to data. The use of data to convey information is vitally important to our social systems. This is underlined by recent research showing that dogs are much more able to get meaning from data than chimpanzees,