This document discusses error detection and correction in data transmission. It defines error detection as detecting errors caused by noise during transmission, while error correction detects and fixes errors to reconstruct the original data. There are two main types of errors: single-bit errors, where one bit is changed, and burst errors, where multiple contiguous bits are changed. Hamming codes are described as a common error detection and correction method, being able to detect up to two-bit errors and correct single-bit errors, but not correct burst errors. The document provides examples of calculating Hamming distance to detect errors and the minimum distance required for error correction.