3.1.1 - 3.2.3 Notes

Question 1

program that helps to efficiently organize/find trends in information

Answer 1

spreadsheets

Question 2

the collection of facts/patterns that are extracted from data

Answer 2

information

Question 3

an association between two or more things, digitally processed data may show it, but it is not certain to also show causation

Answer 3

correlation

Question 4

varying smoothly from one value to another, opposite of discrete

Answer 4

continuous data

Question 5

continuous method used to represent data

Answer 5

analog data

Question 6

jumping from one value to another without taking on all intermediate values, opposite of continuous

Answer 6

discrete data

Question 7

where algorithms check each element in a list until desired value is found

Answer 7

linear search

Question 8

works on sorted data, compares middle element of data to determine next search, cuts the search set in half at each destination

Answer 8

binary search

Question 9

data beyond the resources of one computer to store, especially intensive to analyze, when data is too large or complex

Answer 9

big data

Question 10

when storage or processing is handled by multiple independent machines in a coordinated fashion.

Answer 10

distributed

Question 11

intelligent behavior demonstrated by machines, in contrast to natural intelligence of humans

Answer 11

artificial intelligence (AI)

Question 12

estimation of the amount of computational resources used by an algorithm, efficiency is typically represented as a function of the size of the input, and describes how quickly an algorithm executes

Answer 12

algorithmic efficiency

Question 13

information about data, or data about data

Answer 13

metadata

Question 14

general description of task that cannot be solved algorithmically

Answer 14

problem

Question 15

algorithms with efficiencies that grow at a polynomial rate or slower, are said to run in like this

Answer 15

reasonable time