The Weight of Data

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Audience

Attendees

10-15

Number of facilitators

1

Level

Preparation

5 minutes

Activity

45 minutes

Description

This workshop will lead participants to understand the physical space that data occupies on computers, usb keys etc.

Objectives

Storage space
Orders of magnitude
Calculations

Prerequisites for the audience

Basic maths
Online research

Equipment

2 USB keys
Board
Calculator
Computers to search for examples – 1 or 2 for the whole group would be sufficient
Electronic scale

Content used

https://www.gbmb.org/pb-to-gb
https://www.wolframalpha.com/
http://byteconvert.org/