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Glossary of Data Science and Development Terms

Your Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Key Concepts in Data Science, Machine Learning, and Software Development
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A/B Testing

Activation Functions: The Neural Network's Decision-Making Powerhouse

Ad Hoc Analysis: Unleashing Data's Hidden Stories on Demand

Adversarial Network

Adversarial Training: Building AI That Fights Back Against Deception

Agile Methodology

AI Alignment: Ensuring Artificial Intelligence Serves Humanity's Best Interests

AI Ethics: Navigating the Moral Landscape of Artificial Intelligence

AIOps

AIOps
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Data Scraping

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)

Alerting: Your Digital Early Warning System

Amazon Redshift

Angular

Angular
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DevOps

Anomaly Detection: Spotting the Needle in Data's Haystack

Ansible

Ansible
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DevOps

Anti-Scraping Measures: The Digital Fortress Protecting Web Content

Apache

Apache
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DevOps

Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
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Data Engineering

Apache Hadoop: Taming Big Data's Wild Frontier

Apache Hive

Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka
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Data Engineering

Apache Spark

Apache Spark
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Data Engineering

API Documentation (Swagger, OpenAPI)

API Documentation (Swagger, OpenAPI)
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Web and mobile development

API Gateway: The Digital Traffic Controller Revolutionizing Modern Applications

API Integration

API Integration
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Data Engineering

API Scraping: Unlocking Structured Data Collection Like Never Before

Asynchronous Scraping: Unleashing Lightning-Fast Data Extraction

Attention Mechanism: Teaching AI to Focus Like a Human Mind

AUC (Area Under the Curve): The Ultimate Model Performance Guide

Augmented Analytics: AI-Powered Insights for Everyone

Authentication

Authentication Handling: Your Digital Identity's Guardian Gate

Authorization

Autoencoder Structure: The Art of Neural Data Compression and Reconstruction

Autoencoders: Neural Networks That Master the Art of Self-Discovery

Automation

AutoML

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Generative AI

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Azure DevOps

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Backend: The Invisible Engine Powering Digital Experiences

Backend Development

Backend Development
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Web and mobile development

Backpropagation

Backpropagation
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Generative AI

Backup and Recovery

Batch Normalization: The Revolutionary Deep Learning Breakthrough

Batch Processing

Batch Processing
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Data Engineering

Bayes' Theorem: The Mathematical Magic Behind Smart Predictions

Bayesian Inference

Bayesian Optimization: Smart Search for Perfect Solutions

Beam Search: The Smart Navigator for AI Decision-Making

Beautiful Soup: The Swiss Army Knife for Web Scraping

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
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Web and mobile development

BERT: Revolutionizing NLP with Bidirectional Transformers

Bias in AI: Confronting the Hidden Prejudices in Machine Intelligence

Bias-Variance Tradeoff: Mastering the Art of Model Balance

BERT: Revolutionizing Language Understanding Through Bidirectional Intelligence

Big Data

Big Data
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Data Science

Binomial Distribution: The Mathematical Magic Behind Yes-or-No Events

Blameless Culture

BLEU Score: Measuring Machine Translation Excellence with Mathematical Precision

Blue-Green Deployment

Bootstrap

Bootstrap
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DevOps

Bootstrapping: Statistical Magic from Your Own Data

Box Plot: The Five-Number Summary That Tells Your Data's Complete Story

Browser Automation

Browser Storage: Cookies, Local & Session Storage

Build Pipeline: Automating Data's Journey from Raw to Ready

Build Tools: Webpack, Rollup, Parcel Explained

Bundling

Bundling
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Web and mobile development

Business Intelligence (BI): Transforming Data Into Strategic Power

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Caching

Caching
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Web and mobile development

Canary Deployment

Canvas API

Canvas API
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Web and mobile development

Capacity Planning

CAPTCHA: The Digital Gatekeeper Separating Humans from Bots

CAPTCHA Solving: The Technical Art of Automated Challenge Bypass

CAPTCHAs: Bot Defense Challenges That Secure the Digital World

Cassandra

Cassandra
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DevOps

Cattle vs Pets: Revolutionizing Server Management Philosophy

Causation: Unraveling the True Drivers Behind Events

CDC (Change Data Capture): Real-Time Data Intelligence at Your Fingertips

CDN (Content Delivery Network)

Chain-of-Thought Prompting: Teaching AI to Think Step-by-Step

Change Detection: Spotting Transformations in Dynamic Data

Chaos Engineering

ChatOps

ChatOps
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DevOps

Chef

Chef
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DevOps

Churn Analysis: Predicting Customer Departures Before They Happen

CI/CD: Automating the Software Delivery Revolution

CI/CD for Scraping: Automating Data Collection at Scale

CI/CD Pipeline: Engineering Software Delivery Excellence

CircleCI

CircleCI
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DevOps

Classification: Teaching Machines to Sort the World Into Categories

Client-Server Model

Client-Side Rendering (CSR)

Client-Side Rendering (CSR)
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Web and mobile development

Cloud Analytics: Unleashing Data Intelligence from Anywhere

Cloud-based Scraping: Unleashing Unlimited Data Collection Power

Cloud Computing

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