Unit Five: Writing Classes

collaboration

working together

big data

extremely large data sets that may be analyzed computationally to reveal patterns, trends, and associations, especially relating to human behavior and interactions.

data collection

the process of gathering and analyzing data

usable data

data that can understood without additional information

useful data

data that can be used for reasoning and discussion

data set

a collection of related sets of information that is composed of separate elements but can be manipulated as a unit by a computer.

visualization(s)

any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message.

concatenation

a series of interconnected things or events

ReCAPTCHA

establishes that the user is a human

citizen science

the collection and analysis of data relating to the natural world by members of the general public

regression analysis

a set of statistical processes for estimating the relationships among variables.

crowdsourcing

the practice of obtaining information or input into a task or project by enlisting the services of a large number of people, either paid or unpaid, typically via the Internet.

human computation

is a computer science technique in which a machine performs its function by outsourcing certain steps to humans, usually as microwork.

extraction

the act of removing something by effort or force

curation of information

the process of gathering information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest

storage

the retention of retrievable data on a computer or other electronic system; memory.

cache

a hardware or software component that stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faste

unstructured data

contain everything collected in "raw" form, but connections and relationships among strands of data are both harder to trace and much slower to process than structured data sets.

structured data

easy to access and organize, but may lack the big picture and details that unstructured data may possess.

screen scraping

the conversion of data formatted for human use to a format more easily used by automated computer processes.

knowledge extraction

the creation of knowledge from structured and unstructured sources. The resulting knowledge needs to be in a machine-readable and machine-interpretable format and must represent knowledge in a manner that facilitates inferencing.

data processing

a series of operations on data, especially by a computer, to retrieve, transform, or classify information.

spider bot

searches the web in advance so they can give you info faster

relational database

a database structured to recognize relations among stored items of information.

data vs. information

data are simply facts or figures — bits of information, but not information itself. When data are processed, interpreted, organized, structured or presented so as to make them meaningful or useful, they are called information. Information provides context for data.

generation loss

refers to the process of a qualitative loss in successively copied data.

data persistence

denotes information that is infrequently accessed and not likely to be modified.

data storage

storing of data

indexing

gathering and recording data in an index

filter bubble

Keeps you within limited information range based on searches and bias

privacy concerns

the right of mandating personal privacy concerning storing, re-purposing, provision to third parties, and displaying of information pertaining to oneself via the Internet.

automated summarization

is the process of shortening a text document with software, in order to create a summary with the major points of the original document

utility

Trading personal information for access to more information

analytics

is the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data

descriptive analytics

gives information like statistics on the data it collects.

distribution of means

using data means and finding the standard deviation

predictive analytics

give their hypothesis based on inductive reasoning or past information.

based on descriptive analytics