Data Intelligence · Data & Analysis

Binary and Representation

Investigating how computers represent text, images, and sound using binary digits.

Key Questions

  1. 1How can everything we see on a screen be reduced to two numbers?
  2. 2What are the limitations of representing continuous sound as discrete data?
  3. 3How does compression change the quality of digital information?

ACARA Content Descriptions

AC9TDI8K03
Year: Year 8
Subject: Technologies
Unit: Data Intelligence
Period: Data & Analysis

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