Lecture

Data Compression and Shannon's Theorem: Recap

Description

This lecture covers the concepts of entropy, lossless compression, Shannon-Fano algorithm, Shannon's theorem, Huffman coding, and lossy compression. It explains how to represent sequences of letters efficiently using binary questions and answers. The instructor illustrates the principles with examples and discusses the optimal compression methods.

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