The title text uses your cat as an example of this range of losses (or, in the case of the latter reaches of the graph, gains) in the information.

However the highest quality, 'better data', is using a different sense of the term 'quality', referring more to the general excellence of the data than how accurately it represents the original.

Some of this extra information mitigates the risk of another sense of 'loss' in data - digital data are transferred in bits, and data loss is the process by which some of these bits are lost or altered during data transport. This means that it goes, at the extremes, from having so little information as to make it effectively meaningless, to having significant extra information included (eventually making the original actually an unnecessary distraction). This comic shows a chart in the form of a line, increasing quality from very lossy to most lossless. If you can address this issue, please edit the page! Thanks.ĭigital data can be compressed to make transmission and/or storage more efficient some compression algorithms discard some information to improve the compression, which is known as lossy compression, since some of the information is lost (this can be acceptable in audio or visual data, since the difference may be hard for humans to perceive). should link to the comic on taking the fourier transform of a cat.

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