The quantitiees, characters, or symbols on which operations are performed by a computer, being stored and transmitted in the form electrical signals and recorded on magnetic, optical, or mechanical recording media. (Oxford languages dictionary)
Things known or assumed as fact, making the bassis fo reasoning or calculation (Oxford languages dictionary)
The symbolic representation of reality (me)
All Data has a type
integer (whole number) = 1
float (decimal number) = 1.0
string (text) = “text”
boolean (true or false) = true
date (date) = 1990-01-01 (YYYY-MM-DD)
Why are these data types so important? Binary
ones and zeroes
8 bits = 1 byte
What limits the size of the data we can store?
ASCII (American Standard code for information interchange, 1963)(128 characters) vs UTF-8 (1993)(1,112,064 characters)
John is 31 years old. He was born on 01/01/1990. His father is Jack and his mother is Jill.
Jane is 31 years old. She was born on 02/02/1990. Her father is Jack and her mother is Jill.
Jack is 31 years old. He was born on 03/03/1990. His father is Jack and his mother is Jill.
Doing things with Data
Structured
Semi-structured
Unstructured
ex.CSV
ex.JSON
ex.Text
Easy to manipulate
Easy to manipulate
Hard to manipulate
not flexible
flexible
very flexible
very fast
fast
slow
Making Data Work for You Example, part I
Making Data Work for You Example, part II
Berthier, Sébastien to Henri III, King of France--, 29 january 1585--, Istanbul--, 3--, r
Corfu: Primarily dealing with some issues around Corfu and Candie, and the Pope offering to support the Candians with 50 galleys (7a)
Crete: Primarily dealing with some issues around Corfu and Candie, and the Pope offering to support the Candians with 50 galleys (7a)
Spain: "sus la derniere rechereche notamment de l'espagnol continues de faison par les entremettements dicelles sur la sugjet des lettres du Mariglian a Osman Bassa don’t …" expectation of the continuation of the suspension of arms with Spain will be accomplished. ... Mariglian offered to come [as] ambassador in this Porte. (7b)
Margliani, Giovanni: "sus la derniere rechereche notamment de l'espagnol continues de faison par les entremettements dicelles sur la sugjet des lettres du Mariglian a Osman Bassa don’t …" expectation of the continuation of the suspension of arms with Spain will be accomplished. Mariglian offered to come [as] ambassador in this Porte. (7b)
Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha: "sus la derniere rechereche notamment de l'espagnol continues de faison par les entremettements dicelles sur la sugjet des lettres du Mariglian a Osman Bassa don’t …" expectation of the continuation of the suspension of arms with Spain will be accomplished.
Making Data Work for You Example, part III
{"src": {
"author": "Berthier, Sébastien",
"recipient": "Henri III, King of France",
"title": "Berthier, Sébastien to Henri III, King of France, 29 january 1585",
"date": "1585-01-29",
"auth_loc_town": "Istanbul",
"pages": " 3 r-"},
"notes": [{
"text": "Primarily dealing with some issues around Corfu and Candie, and the Pope offering to support the Candians with 50 galleys (7a)",
"tag": "Corfu"},
{"text": "Primarily dealing with some issues around Corfu and Candie, and the Pope offering to support the Candians with 50 galleys (7a)",
"tag": "Crete"},
{"text": "'sus la derniere rechereche notamment de l\'espagnol continues de faison par les entremettements dicelles sur la sugjet des lettres du Mariglian a Osman Bassa don’t …' expectation of the continuation of the suspension of arms with Spain will be accomplished. ... Mariglian offered to come [as] ambassador in this Porte. (7b)",
"tag": "Spain"},
{"text": "'sus la derniere rechereche notamment de l\'espagnol continues de faison par les entremettements dicelles sur la sugjet des lettres du Mariglian a Osman Bassa don’t …' expectation of the continuation of the suspension of arms with Spain will be accomplished. Mariglian offered to come [as] ambassador in this Porte. (7b)",
"tag": "Margliani, Giovanni"}]
}