NEWSLETTER
During the rise of telecommunications, Claude Shannon, in his 1948 seminal document, raised a question that would revolutionize technology:
How can we quantify communication?
Shannon's findings remain fundamental to express information quantification, storageand communication. These ideas made important contributions to the creation of technologies that range from signal processing, data compression (for example, ZIP files and compact discs) to the Internet and artificial intelligence. In more general terms, his work has significantly affected various fields, such as neurobiology, statistical and computer physics (for example, cybersecurity, cloud computing and automatic learning).
(Shannon's role is the)
Magna letter from the information age
– Scientific American
This is the first article in a series that explores the quantification of information, an essential tool for data scientists. Their applications range from improving statistical analysis to serve as a decision heuristic in automatic avant -garde learning algorithms.
