Appendix B. A Data Compression Primer

Appendix B. A Data Compression Primer

Section B.1.  Introduction

Section B.2.  Lossless and Lossy Compression

Section B.3.  A Data Set Example

Section B.4.  Whitespace Compression

Section B.5.  Run-Length Encoding

Section B.6.  Huffman Encoding

Section B.7.  Lempel Ziv-Compression

Section B.8.  Solving the Right Problem

Section B.9.  A Custom Text Compressor

Section B.10.  References