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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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Machine Learning

Machine Learning
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Data Science

Machine Learning Algorithms: The Complete Guide to Models

Machine Translation

Machine Translation
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Generative AI

MapReduce

MapReduce
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DevOps

Margin of Error

Margin of Error
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Data Science

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)

Master Data Management (MDM): Definition, Core Elements, and Enterprise Use Cases

Mean Absolute Error (MAE)

Mean Squared Error (MSE)

MEAN Stack

MERN Stack

Metadata

Metadata
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DevOps

Metadata Management

Metadata Management
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Data Engineering

Meta-learning

Meta-learning
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Generative AI

METEOR Score

METEOR Score
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Generative AI

Metrics

Metrics
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Data Science

Microservices

Microservices
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Web and mobile development

Microsoft Teams: A Unified Communication and Collaboration Platform for Modern Workflows

Middleware

Minification

Minification
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Web and mobile development

Mobile Analytics

Mobile Analytics
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Data Science

Mobile App Scraping

Mobile App Scraping
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Data Scraping

Mobile-First Design

Mobile-First Design
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Web and mobile development

Mobile Scraping

Mode Collapse

Model Compression

Model Compression
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Generative AI

Model Evaluation

Model-View-Controller (MVC)

Monitoring

Monitoring & Alerting: Your Digital Health Guardian System

Monolithic Architecture

Monte Carlo Simulation

Multi-modal AI

Multi-modal AI
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Generative AI

Multi-task Learning

Multi-task Learning
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Generative AI

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Nagios

Nagios
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DevOps

Naive Bayes Classification: A Probabilistic Model for Fast and Scalable Prediction

Named Entity Recognition (NER)

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Scraping

Neural Architecture Search

Neural Networks

Neural Networks
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Data Science

Deep Learning & Neural Networks: Architectures and Mechanisms

Neural Style Transfer

New Relic

New Relic
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DevOps

NGINX: Definition, Core Functions, and Role in Modern Infrastructure

NoOps

NoOps
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DevOps

Normal Distribution

NoSQL Databases

NoSQL Databases
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Data Engineering

Nucleus Sampling

Nucleus Sampling
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Generative AI

O

OAuth

OAuth
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Web and mobile development

Object Detection

Object Detection
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Data Science

OLAP (Online Analytical Processing)

OLTP (Online Transaction Processing)

One-Hot Encoding

One-Hot Encoding
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Data Science

One-shot Learning

One-shot Learning
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Generative AI

OpenAI

OpenAI
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DevOps

Orchestration

Orchestration (Kubernetes)

ORM (Object-Relational Mapping)

ORM (Object-Relational Mapping)
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Web and mobile development

Outlier Detection

Outlier Detection
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Data Science

Outliers

Outliers
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DevOps

Overfitting

Overfitting
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Data Science

OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project)

P

Package Managers (npm, yarn)

Package Managers (npm, yarn)
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Web and mobile development

Page Load Time

PagerDuty

PagerDuty
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DevOps

Pair Programming

Parallel Processing

Parallel Processing
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Data Engineering

Pareto Chart

Pareto Chart
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Data Science

Parquet

Parquet
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DevOps

PDF Scraping

PDF Scraping
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Data Scraping

Penetration Testing

Performance Optimization

Performance Optimization
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Web and mobile development

Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
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Data Engineering

Perplexity

Perplexity
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Generative AI

PhantomJS: A Lightweight Headless Browser for Automation and Web Scraping

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor)

Pipeline Monitoring

Pivot Table

Pivot Table
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Data Science

Poisson Distribution

Polyfills

Polyfills
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Web and mobile development

Polynomial Regression

Postmortem

Precision

Precision
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Data Science

Defenition of Predictive Analytics

Predictive Modeling

Prescriptive Analytics

Presto Distributed SQL Engine for Fast Interactive Analytics

Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Probability Distribution

Progressive Enhancement

Progressive Enhancement
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Web and mobile development

Progressive Web App (PWA)

Progressive Web App (PWA)
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Web and mobile development

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)

Prometheus

Prompt Engineering

Prompt Engineering
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Generative AI

Prompt Tuning

Prompt Tuning
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Generative AI

Proxy Servers

Proxy Servers
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Data Scraping
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