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BROUGHT TO YOU BY istract visual knowiedge transfer www.ixtract.de DROPS OF BITS Could you imagine the size of really big amounts of data? As information doesn't usually have any kind of visible size or shape we tried to make a comparison: What would it look like, if you equate one bit of information with one drop of water? Here we go... A BINARY DECISION I Bit 100.0% 0.05 ML mm 3.5 one drop of water I Bit = a binary decision = | drop of water = 0.05 ml A TEXT CHARACTER 8 Bit = | Byte mm 100.0% 0000 10 0,4 ML 8 drops of water 12 x two words TWO SHORT TEXT WORDS (3/4 LETTERS) 12 Bytes 100.0% 5 ML mm one teaspoon filled with water 40 240 x cm A PAGE FULL OF TEXT З КВ 18.0% 15 1.2 L volume of 3 plnts 33 х A LOW RES PHOTO 100 KB 9.8% 40 L volume of one backpack 15 x cm 180 FLOPPY DISK 1.44 MBv 3.6 % 600 L volume of one fridge 90 7x н я CO CO 59 m I MIN OF VIDEO 10 MB 1.8% 4,185 L volume of one pool 70 x CD 700 MB 0.6 % 293,600 L volume of one 98 m? apartment 8.5 x IPOD MINI 6 GB O 0.45% 2,500,000 L volume of one Olymplc-size swimmlng pool 176 x 35 XIINIIS MOBILE HDD I TB (Terabyte) 415 0.024% 439,804,651 L volume of one oll tanker 3,459,232 DEC 31 INFORMATION PRODUCED IN I DAY IN 2010 3.3 EB (Exabyte) Everest 0.00048 % 8,848 1,521,386,372,716,000 L volume of the Mount Everest 360 x 2010 INFORMATION PRODUCED INYEAR 2010 1.2 ZB (Zettabyte) Black Sea 547,000 km A 0.000003 % 547,000,000,000,000,000 L volume of the Black Sea Sources Searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/How-many-bytes-for SERrchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/dskette SEarchdo-midmarkettechtarget.com/defintion/character www2slms.berkeley.edu/research/ projects/how-much-Infoldatapowers.html www.storagenewslettercom/news/miscelaneousidgtal-universe-decade-emc-lde enwkpeda.org/wkZettabyte phys.org/news/2011-04-world-consumption-bytes-year.html www.sportscomet.com/General-OuedoorRecreation/I69068htm www.boelng.comvcommercal/747family/pfipf facts.html en.wildpeda.org/wild/Olymple-size_pwimming pool wikdanswers.com/QMhat_is the_mas_of_Mount_ Everest mashable.com/2012/06/19blg-data-mythe/ www.tlshopper.com/took/calkulate/ ga.water.usgs gowledukmrthhowmuch.html ga.water.usgs gowleduiwatercyclelce.html BROUGHT TO YOU BY istract visual knowledge transfer enwkpeda.org/wikd/Padfic_Ocean enwkpeda.org/wik/Black Sea enwkpeda.org/wikOIl tanker enwkpeda.org/wild/Body_water Research and Infographics production In 2013 www.ixtract.de [email protected]