Here comes the boring stuff. You know, where I describe data and information and the values of the right organizational structure. Then hold tight. Data is just another in the long list of four letter words that are both a blessing and a curse. Or if not meaningless is just another item in the long, flowing river of data that pushes past us every minute of every day.
Information is a collection of data put together to tell a story, albeit perhaps a short one.
Analysis is the gathering of information into a meaningful grouping that provides a decisionmaker with a means to differentiate, based upon specified objectives, what is important and what is not. This is a package of frozen peas. Get the most peas for the least money. Two cans of peas will be cheaper than one frozen package. Data has been gathered into information and then analyzed by the shopper to achieve a specified objective, shop cheaply.