Understanding compression : data compression for modern developers / Colt McAnlis and Aleks Haecky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McAnlis, Colt, author.

Haecky, Aleks Haecky, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Data compression (Computer science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations, tables, photographs

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Beijing, [China] : O'Reilly, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

If you want to attract and retain users in the booming mobile services market, you need a quick-loading app that won’t churn through their data plans. The key is to compress multimedia and other data into smaller files, but finding the right method is tricky. This witty book helps you understand how data compression algorithms work—in theory and practice—so you can choose the best solution among all the available compression tools. With tables, diagrams, games, and as little math as possible , authors Colt McAnlis and Aleks Haecky neatly explain the fundamentals.

Contents:

Let's not be boring

Do not skip this chapter

Breaking entropy

Variable-length codes

Statistical encoding

Adaptive statistical encoding

Dictionary transforms

Contextual data transforms

Data modeling

Switching gears

Evaluating compression

Compressing image data types

Serialized data

Lossy data compression

Making the world a little smaller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 20, 2016).

ISBN:

9781491961483

1491961481

9781491961520

149196152X

9781491961506

1491961503

OCLC:

953971772