Compression on a intuitive level can be applied to many concepts. Being a geneticist (more bioinformatician now), I sometimes view DNA as a compressed dataset.

Compression on a intuitive level can be applied to many concepts. Being a geneticist (more bioinformatician now), I sometimes view DNA as a compressed dataset. Let's say we were to somehow define all the information that makes up us as individuals (map all the atoms in our body or something). All that information is algorithmically compressed into DNA. If the universe is a giant computer, DNA is the code and we are the output. Geneticists, in a sense, are just studying how this compression works.