Data analytics and AI
This glossary contains definitions related to customer data analytics, predictive analytics, data visualization and operational business intelligence. Some definitions explain the meaning of words used to Hadoop and other software tools used in big data analytics. Other definitions are related to the strategies that business intelligence professionals, data scientists, statisticians and data analysts use to make data-driven decisions.
Algorithms
Terms related to procedures or formulas for solving a problem by conducting a sequence of specified actions. In computing, algorithms in the form of mathematical instructions play an important part in search, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
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edge analytics
Edge analytics is an approach to data collection and analysis in which an automated analytical computation is performed on data at a sensor, network switch or other device instead of waiting for the data to be sent back to a centralized data store.
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explainable AI
Explainable AI (XAI) is artificial intelligence (AI) that's programmed to describe its purpose, rationale and decision-making process in a way that the average person can understand.
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conversational AI (conversational artificial intelligence)
Conversational AI (conversational artificial intelligence) is a type of AI that enables computers to understand, process and generate human language.
Artificial intelligence
Terms related to artificial intelligence (AI), including definitions about machine learning and words and phrases about training data, algorithms, natural language processing, neural networks and automation.
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model card in machine learning
A model card is a type of documentation that is created for, and provided with, machine learning models.
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big data
Big data is a combination of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data that organizations collect, analyze and mine for information and insights.
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chain-of-thought prompting
Chain-of-thought prompting is a prompt engineering technique that aims to improve language models' performance on tasks requiring logic, calculation and decision-making by structuring the input prompt in a way that mimics human reasoning.
Data and data management
Terms related to data, including definitions about data warehousing and words and phrases about data management.
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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is legislation that updated and unified data privacy laws across the European Union (EU).
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entity relationship diagram (ERD)
An entity relationship diagram (ERD), also known as an 'entity relationship model,' is a graphical representation that depicts relationships among people, objects, places, concepts or events in an information technology (IT) system.
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big data management
Big data management is the organization, administration and governance of large volumes of both structured and unstructured data.
Database management
Terms related to databases, including definitions about relational databases and words and phrases about database management.
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entity relationship diagram (ERD)
An entity relationship diagram (ERD), also known as an 'entity relationship model,' is a graphical representation that depicts relationships among people, objects, places, concepts or events in an information technology (IT) system.
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web services
Web services are a type of internet software that use standardized messaging protocols and are made available from an application service provider's web server for a client or other web-based programs to use.
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data modeling
Data modeling is the process of creating a simplified visual diagram of a software system and the data elements it contains, using text and symbols to represent the data and how it flows.