Glossary

• Algorithm: a set of instructions that solve a problem in a finite set of time.
• Bit: A binary digit, either a 0 or a 1. The most basic measurement of digital data.
• Byte: A collection of 8 bits. Most data is measured in terms of bytes. Frequently combined with the metric prefix system to produce units such as Kilobytes, Megabytes...
• CSV: Comma Separated Values. This is a common file format for storing tabular data. Each line normally represents a record. The fields in a record are separated by commas. If the data contains commas, alternative delimiters are sometimes selected or additional encoding techniques are used. Many tools for manipulating data can read files in a CSV format.
• Data: Data is information output by a sensing device or organ that includes both useful and irrelevant or redundant information and must be processed to be meaningful (From Merriam Webster)
• Data Mining: The process of searching data sets for patterns or information.
• Delimiter: A special character used to separate data elements. In a CSV file the delimiter is frequently a comma.
• Field: A field is a piece of data in a record.
• Information: Information is data that has been processed, organized, structured or presented to make them meaningful or useful.
• Machine Learning: The use of algorithms and data to produce a system which can perform a task whithout using explicit instructions.
• Record: A record is a collection of data about an individual element of the population. This is usually a single row in a tabular data set.
• Structured Data: Structured data is generally considered data that is broken into a number of regular fields for each record.
• Unstructured Data: Unstructured data is data that can not be broken into fields easily.