STAT 2984 Lecture 2: STAT-2984 - Notes - 2 - Data Size
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Measuring the size of data: number of dimensions (variables, pixels, words) High level number of observations (rows, documents, images), Low level size of the file(s) stored on your computer. Each (cid:882) or (cid:883) is considered a (cid:498)bit(cid:499) and there are 8 bits in one bite. Ascii: the american standard code for information interchange. Computer languages may also use different conversions (i. e. java, c, c#) File size refers to the number of bytes the computer needs to store the file. 8 bits kilobyte (kb) megabyte (mb) gigabyte (gb) Unit terabyte (tb) petabyte (pb) exabyte (eb) zettabyte (zb) yottabyte (yb)
