Digital Information
The Internet
Data
Challenge Questions
Activities
100
They are used inside of computers and only have two values: 1 and 0.

What is binary?

100

The full word for "IP" Address.

What is internet protocol address?

100

A graph with a bar/tower/bin for every unique value in the dataset.

What is a barchart?

100

100000001 in decimal.

What is 257?

100

The circle and square activity prepared us for this.

What is binary?

200

This is the kind of error you get when you don't have enough digits to represent the number you need to. HINT: Think back to the odometer activity.

What is overflow error?

200

The purpose of a router.

What is directing internet traffic?

200

The process of getting data into a similar format so that the visualizations are more accurate.

What is cleaning/filtering data?

200

111, 000, 101, 110 as their color names from our color widget activity. HINT: RGB, BINARY.

What is White, Black, Purple, Yellow?

200

Drawing lines between letters and forming a network helped us understand this.

What is a computing network, path, fault tolerance/redundancy?

300

A character set that was created for computers and electronics.

What is ASCII?

300

The purpose of a DNS server.

What is storing IP addresses and resolving requests for name/ip addresses?
300

The two charts we explored for visualizing two variables.

What is crosstab and scatterplots?

300

Slang can be a form of this. It requires that everyone agrees on the slang and that there is no confusion regarding the translation.

What is Lossless Compression?

300
Classifying fish represented this process in computer science.

What is Machine Learning?

400

1011 in decimal form.

What is 11?

400

The reason we add in redundancy to networks.

What is fault tolerance?

400

An algorithm trained on a dataset to classify or predict something.

What is Machine Learning?

400

The name for the "chat widget" we used for the internet unit.

What is the Internet Simulator?

400

The surveys at the beginning of each unit were called this.

What is The Pre-Unit Pulse?

500

The colors red, green and blue in our color widget activity. HINT: RGB, BINARY.

What is 100, 010, 001?

500

The reason the download speed changed when we all did the speed test at the same time.

What is bandwidth?

500

Favor over something with regards to machine learning, datasets and people.

What is bias?

500

A process for creating a digital representation of analog data by measuring the analog data at regular intervals called samples. HINT: Think to the frequency of updates about your delivery example.

What is sampling?

500

We compressed an image of a bus using this method (and later our own image we chose to upload). HINT: It got harder to tell what it was.

What is Lossy Compression?

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