Syllabus Focus: Unit 1 Module 1 Content 7

Specific Objective 7: identify ways of representing data and information

Content: Data: including character, string, numeric, aural (forexample, Morse Code, musical notes),
visual (for example, the individual frames of a movie, fingerprints); musical symbols.
Information: including text, graphics, sound, video, special purpose notations (mathematical,
scientific and musical notations); graphical representations (graphs and charts); tables.

Ways of representing data and information

Data include:
 Character – used to represent letters eg A, or a
 String – used to represent a word eg, man, dog
 Numeric – used to resent numbers eg 0, 1. 9
 Aural (for example, Morse Code, dots and dashes)
 Visual (for example, the individual frames of a movie, fingerprints)

Morse code is a character encoding for transmitting telegraphic information, using standardized
sequences of short and long elements to represent the letters, numerals, punctuation and special
characters of a given message. The short and long elements can be formed by sounds, marks, or
pulses, in on off keying and are commonly known as "dots" and "dashes" or "dits" and "dahs".

Information include:
 Text
 Graphics
 Sound
 Video
 Special purpose notation (mathematical, scientific and musical notation)
 Graphical representation (graphs and chart)
 Tables

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