5.2 Evidence Pyramid as a discussion object
The Evidence Pyramid can support adding in evidence at different levels of analysis: data, information or knowledge. Previous activities have supported you interacting with this discussion object. In a migration Evidence Café, different participants discuss the level of evidence they have and often realise how little we are focused on translating our data into valuable knowledge.
Figure 5.1 The Evidence Pyramid
Show description|Hide descriptionA pyramid diagram showing the relationship between data, information and knowledge. At the bottom of the pyramid, in the largest segment is ‘data’, in the middle is ‘information’, and at the top of the pyramid, indicating the smallest proportion, is ‘knowledge’. This represents the levels of analysis that evidence is taken through where data has less analysis and complexity than information or knowledge. This also reveals why there is more data (at the bottom of the pyramid) than there is knowledge at the top.
The evidence typology is another discussion object that can be used in a migration Evidence Café after the Evidence Pyramid to help stakeholders realise that we all have valuable evidence to contribute at different levels of analysis. The evidence typology builds upon the Evidence Pyramid and represents different types of evidence from different types of stakeholders with rigour in the evidence collection and analysis usually originating from; public stories, expert reports, institutional and governmental policies and procedures, academic and institutional research.
