📊 Representation
31 Jan 2017🎯 Learning Targets
API can describe the variety of abstractions used to represent data.API can analyze how data representation, storage, security, and transmission of data involve computational manipulation of information.
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What is “representation”? How are you represented?
🐮 Levels of Abstraction
Everything you see on a computer is an abstraction.
What does this mean?
How can representation tell a story?
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How accurately can human experience and perception be captured or reflected in digital information?
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How is this graph an abstraction?
What do you think these data show?
What is “representation?” What does it mean to be “underrepresented?”