Unit Five: Writing Classes

working together

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

the process of gathering and analyzing data

data that can understood without additional information

data that can be used for reasoning and discussion

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

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

a series of interconnected things or events

establishes that the user is a human

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

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

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.

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

the act of removing something by effort or force

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

a database structured to recognize relations among stored items of 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.

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

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

storing of data

gathering and recording data in an index

Keeps you within limited information range based on searches and bias

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

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

Trading personal information for access to more information

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

gives information like statistics on the data it collects.

using data means and finding the standard deviation

give their hypothesis based on inductive reasoning or past information.