Pre-Lab Activities

Reading

Computers represent data using 1s and 0s as binary data. In this lesson, we are going to learn how data are stored in computers and more. Click on every underlined sentence down below to learn in detail about the specific topic.

• Binary and Data

• What are bits(binary digits)?

• What is a byte and what is the number of bytes required to store a given amount of data?

• Binary numbers and how to convert decimal numbers to binary numbers

• Storing text in binary

• Limitation of storing numbers

• What is data compression?

• Lossless text compression and lossless image compression

• Lossy compression

• Encryption, decryption, and cracking

• Difference between Encryption and Encoding

• Data analysis, transformation, and visualization using Excel

Data Simulation is taking a large amount of data and using it to simulate or mirror real-world conditions of either predicting a future instance, determining the best course of action or validating a model.

• Modeling and simulation introduction