1. Too much information running through my brain.
I Need More Data
Too much information running through my brain.

2. What is 'data'?
We live in the information age.
Knowledge comes from careful investigation of information.
Information is represented/encoded as data.
What information is represented by an abacus? How?
What information is represented on a DVD? How?
What information is encoded on a credit card? How?
If you don’t believe in the importance of INFORMATION - consider the issue of espionage both gov’t and corporate.
The bead positions on an abacus represent numbers. Combinations of holes on a punched card represent data.
Data could represent your credit card information, a movie to be played on a DVD, Doppler radar images being posted on the Internet ...
DATA: The quantities, characters, or symbols on which operations are performed by a computer.

3. How can real-world information become data?
How can a picture or a sound or a temperature reading become data?
Data comes in two types:
Continuous: infinitely variable points
Discrete: finite number of points/choices

4. Continuous or Discrete?
How long might it take a light bulb to burn out?
What was your ACT score?
How tall are you?
How many books did you read this year?
How much water did you drink this week?
How many gen-ed courses have you taken at UW-L?

5. Continuous/Discrete In electronics, signals are known as either
analog (meaning a continuous signal)
digital (meaning a discrete signal)

6. Analog or Digital?

7. Why are computers digital?
Information needs to be encoded in such a way as to be processed.
Electrical signals can be processed.
Even analog signals can be processed, but digital is simpler.
In computers, there are two discrete (digital) signals: on and off. It's easy to tell if an electrical signal is on or off:
Electric fence
Electric socket
Light bulb

8. On or Off

9. What is a bit?
Bit: short for "binary digit". A bit is the representation used for the smallest (atomic) amount of computer data.
A bit is either ON or OFF.
You can think of a bit as an extremely small battery that can be quickly charged and discharged. When charged, the bit is ON. When discharged, the bit is OFF. This is essentially what a single transistor is.
Mathematically speaking, a bit is usually understood as the value 0 when OFF and the value 1 when ON.
Since there are only two values, a bit is known as a 'binary' digit. 1

10. Bit Patterns
What if you had two bits in a sequence. How many different patterns (sequences) could there be? 1 1 1

11. Bit Patterns
What if you had three bits in a sequence. How many different patterns (sequences) could there be? 1 1 1

12. Bit Patterns
What if you had four bits in a sequence. How many patterns could there be?
What if you had N bits in a sequence. How many patterns could there be?
With more bits you can store more information.
One more bit doubles the amount.
# Bits
# of Patterns 1 2 4 3 8 16 5 32 N 2N

13. How is data capacity measured?
One bit is too small to use as a measurement.
Nobody says: "I've got a 10 GigaBit IPod"
Measures of data capacity are based on a byte.
1 byte = 8 bits
1 bytes can have 256 different patterns
1 byte is big enough to represent many kinds of things
Prefix
Symbol
Base 2
Decimal
Kilobyte K
210
1,024
Megabyte M
220
1,048,576
Gigabyte G
230
≈1,000,000,000
Terabyte T
240
≈1,000,000,000,000
Petabyte P
250
≈1,000,000,000,000,000
One byte can represent small numbers [0-255] for example, or a single camera pixel, or a single text character.
Flash drives are measured in Mega and/or Gigabytes
Hard drives are measured in Gigabytes
Nobody will use a web site if it contains lots of 2Megabyte pictures/graphics.

14. What we have learned A string of bits can represent various things
The length of a bit string controls the number of things that can be represented
What is the shortest bit string for representing 100 different special symbols?
Information is represented as data
Data is stored in computer by string of bits
2^6 = 64
2^7 = 128

15. How much data to encode…
How much data capacity do you need to encode:
The complete works of William Shakespeare?
One 4 minute pop song (MP3)?
One digital picture (JPEG)?
One feature length movie (DVD)?
All of Wikipedia (As of Jan 2010)?
The entire U.S. Library of Congress (As of Apr 2011)?
Shakespeare: about 5M
MP3: at 128Kbits/second about 4Meg
One digital picture: About 4Meg depending on compression
DVD: One sided/double-layered: 8.5Gig
CD: About 800M
Wikipedia: 5.9Tera
Library: 235 Terabytes and adds about 5 Terabytes each month

16. Digital NUMBERS All digital data is a sequence of bits.
How can we represent an integer number as a sequence of bits?
Consider the decimal number 515.
A sequence of digits
Digits are one of: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Meaning of a digit depends on position: power of 10
515 = 5× × ×100
Consider the binary number 101.
Binary uses a base-2 (or radix 10) system rather than base 10
Digits are one of: 0, 1
Meaning of a digit depends on position: power of 2
101 = 1×22 + 0×21 + 1×20

17. Convert binary to decimal=
1×25 + 0×24 + 1×23 + 1×22 + 1×21 + 0×20
1×32 + 0×16 + 1×8 + 1×4 + 1×2 + 0×1 46 =
1×25 + 1×24 + 0×23 + 0×22 + 0×21 + 1×20
1×32 + 1×16 + 0×8 + 0×4 + 0×2 + 1×1 49

18. What's the base?
It's easy to get confused and not be sure of what base a number is written in. For example, is 111:
One hundred eleven?
Five?
A subscript can be used to specify the base whenever it is unclear.
1112 is equal to five
11110 is equal to one hundred eleven.

19. Biggest Binary Number What is the biggest number you can have with
Two bits?
Three bits?
Four bits?
Five bits?
N bits?
3, 7, 15, 31, 2^n-1

20. What about real numbers?
While we can represent an integer as a sequence of bits, is it possible to represent a real number such as 2.31 or 2.125?
In base 10, the value means:
2× × × ×10-3
In base 2, the value means:
1×20 + 1× × ×2-3
1×1 + 1×(1/2) + 0×(1/4) + 1×(1/8)
1.625

21. What about real numbers?
Consider the value 1/3. How many decimal digits does it take to accurately represent as a real number?
1/3 =
Consider the value 1/5. How many decimal digits does it take to accurately represent as a real number? How many binary digits?
1/5 = 0.210
1/5 = 0.102
Since it requires a potentially infinite amount of bits to store a real number, computers can be imprecise.

22. What about text?
Can text be represented as a sequence of binary digits (bits)?
Text is a made of pictures (also known as symbols or characters).
Each character can be associated with an integer number
Character
Decimal
Binary A B 1 C 2 D 3 E 4 F 5 … Z 25

23. What about text?
The numbers associated with a character can obviously be stored
About how many unique numbers are required for English text? (asked another way, how many unique characters did William Shakespeare ever use?)
One byte has enough capacity to store an English character.
About how many unique numbers are required for Chinese text?
Two bytes is enough for most languages: 电脑

24. ASCII Table
Most computers that are configured for English writers, use the ASCII table. This table associates numbers with English text.

25. What about colors? How might a computer store a 'color'?
What are the primary colors of pigment?
Cyan, magenta, yellow
What are the primary colors of light?
Red, green, blue

26. RGB Color Model
RGB color model
Uses red, green, and blue as the primary colors.
Any color can be represented by combining different amounts of these three primaries.
Consider a flashlight that has a slider that chooses the strength of light emitted.
Setting the slider to zero, the flashlight is turned completely off
Setting the slider to 255, the flashlight generates as much light as it is capable of generating.
Consider three such flashlights
Each light emits purely red; green; or blue light. If all three flashlights are aimed at the same spot on a white wall any color can be projected onto the wall by adjusting the slider values on the three lights in different ways.

27. What about pictures? Could you encode an image as a sequence of bits?
Starting from the upper-left pixel, scan the image left-to-right, top-to-bottom
Record each pixel that you encounter.
How many bits would be required for a
100x100 image?
1024x768 image?
Most JPG files of 1024x768 are about 3-4 Meg. How?
100*100*3*8 = 240,000, three primary color RGB, each one uses a byte to store how much red [0,255]
1024*768*3*8=18,874,368
Most JPG files of 1024x768 are about 3-4 Meg. How? compression

28. What about pictures?
There are many different ways to encode the same information. Some ways use more bits than others.
Consider a black & white 8x8 image.
Use 0 for white and 1 for black
This is known as 'raw' or 'bitmap' format 1

29. What about pictures?
Run length encoding is another way to encode images
A 'run' is the length of successive like-colored pixels
Store the lengths of these runs for each row, starting with white 1
2,4,2
1,1,4,1,1
1,1,1,2,1,1,1
1,6,1
1,2,2,2,1
Raw
Run Length
Can you think of numbers in the Run Length code above that are not needed?

30. Data Compression Consider another way to store images. Raw pixels
Raw pixels
Run Length Encoding
1, 5, 2
1, 1, 4, 1, 1
1, 1, 4, 1, 1
1, 5, 2
1, 1, 2, 1, 3
1, 1, 3, 1, 2
1, 4, 1, 1 8
a total of _____ numbers
a total of ____ numbers
Of course, RLE doesn’t always work - consider a checkerboard.
64, 31
compression
- a way to represent data in more compact form

31. Compression
When data is compressed, information is encoded using fewer bits.
This speeds transmission
Reduces storage cost (smaller drives)
May increase processing (must un-compress to view/process)
For pictures, there are two types:
Lossless: No information is lost
Lossy: Information may be lost

32. Lossy (jpg) and Lossless (png)

33. Hexadecimal

34. Hexadecimal
Base is 16: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F.
It takes four digits of binary to represent one digit of hexadecimal.
Convert a hexadecimal number into binary
3A16 =
E716 =
Convert a binary number into hexadecimal
= grouped with padding = 5216
= grouped = DD16

35. Hexadecimal Convert a hexadecimal number into its decimal equivalent
Multiplying the decimal equivalent of each hexadecimal digit by the corresponding power of 16 and add the resulting values.
C0E716 = (12 × 163) + (0 × 162) + (14 × 161) + (7 × 160) = (12 × 4096) + (0 × 256) + (14 × 16) + (7 × 1) = 49,38310

36. Octal
Base is 8
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7
It takes three binary digits to represent an octal digit

37. Octal Converting from octal to binary 658 = 110 1012 178 = 001 1112
Converting from binary to octal:
= grouped = 548
= grouped with padding = 238
Converting from octal to decimal:
658 = (6 × 81) + (5 × 80) = (6 × 8) + (5 × 1) = 5310
1278 = (1 × 82) + (2 × 81) + (7 × 80)
= (1 × 64) + (2 × 8) + (7 × 1)
= 8710