C3M1 Flashcards
Agenda
A list of scheduled appointments
Audio File
Digitized audio storage usually in an MP3, AAC, or other compressed format
Boolean data
A data type with only two possible values, usually true or false
Continuous data
Data that is measured and can have almost any numeric value
Cookie
A small file stored on a computer that contains information about its users
Data element
A piece of information in a dataset
Data model
A tool for organizing data elements and how they relate to one another
Digital photo
An electronic or computer-based image usually in BMP or JPG format
Discrete data
Data that is counted and has a limited number of values
External Data
Data that lives, and is generated, outside of an organization
Field
A single piece of information from a row or column of a spreadsheet; in a data table, typically a column in the table
First-party data
Data collected by an individual or group using their own resources
Long data
A dataset in which each row is one time point per subject, so each subject has data in multiple rows
Nominal data
A type of qualitative data that is categorized without a set order
Ordinal data
Qualitative data with a set order or scale
Ownership
The aspect of data ethics that presumes individuals own the raw data they provide and have primary control over its usage, processing, and sharing
Pixel
In digital imaging, a small area of illumination on a display screen that, when combined with other adjacent areas, forms a digital image
Population
In data analytics, all possible data values in a dataset
Record
A collection of related data in a data table, usually synonymous with row
Sample
In data analytics, a segment of a population that is representative of the entire population
Second-party data
Data collected by a group directly from its audience and then sold
Social media
Websites and applications through which users create and share content or participate in social networking
String data type
A sequence of characters and punctuation that contains textual information (Refer to Text data type)
Structured data
Data organized in a certain format such as rows and columns
Text data type
A sequence of characters and punctuation that contains textual information (also called string data type)
United States Census Bureau
An agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the nation’s leading provider of quality data about its people and economy
Unstructured data
Data that is not organized in any easily identifiable manner
Video file
A collection of images, audio files, and other data usually encoded in a compressed format such as MP4, MV4, MOV, AVI, or FLV
Wide data
A dataset in which every data subject has a single row with multiple columns to hold the values of various attributes of the subject
