Lossless Compression: Shannon-Fano and Huffman

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Explores the Shannon-Fano algorithm for efficient data compression and its applications in lossless and lossy compression techniques.

Explores entropy as a 'question game' to guess letters efficiently and its relation to data compression.

Covers the application of entropy in algorithms, focusing on sorting and decision-making strategies.

Reviews information measures like entropy and introduces mutual information as a measure of information between random variables.

Explores data compression, including lossless methods and the necessity of lossy compression for real numbers and signals.

Introduces data compression, exploring how redundancy in data can be reduced to achieve smaller file sizes without losing information.

Explores Shannon's theorem on data compression and the performance of Shannon Fano codes.

Explores the performance of Shannon-Fano algorithm and introduces Huffman codes for efficient data compression.

Demonstrates the calculation of entropy for a specific example, resulting in an entropy value of 2.69.

Covers source coding theorems, entropy, and various source models in information theory.