Prepare Data for Exploration (Terms) Flashcards
Features such as password protection, user permissions, and encryption that are used to protect a spreadsheet
Access control
Metadata that indicates the technical source of a digital asset
Administrative metadata
A list of scheduled appointments
Agenda
Digitized audio storage usually in an MP3, AAC, or other compressed format
Audio file
A data source that is not reliable, original, comprehensive, current, and cited (ROCCC)
Bad data source
A conscious or subconscious preference in favor of or against a person, group of people, or thing
Bias
A data type with only two possible values, usually true or false
Boolean data
The tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms pre-existing beliefs
Confirmation bias
The aspect of data ethics that presumes an individual’s right to know how and why their personal data will be used before agreeing to provide it
Consent
Data that is measured and can have almost any numeric value
Continuous data
A small file stored on a computer that contains information about its users
Cookie
A delimited text file that uses a comma to separate values
CSV (comma-separated values) file
The aspect of data ethics that presumes individuals should be aware of financial transactions resulting from the use of their personal data and the scale of those transactions
Currency
The process of protecting people’s private or sensitive data by eliminating identifying information
Data anonymization
When a preference in favor of or against a person, group of people, or thing systematically skews data analysis results in a certain direction
Data bias
A piece of information in a dataset
Data element
Well-founded standards of right and wrong that dictate how data is collected, shared, and used
Data ethics
A process for ensuring the formal management of a company’s data assets
Data governance
The ability to integrate data from multiple sources and a key factor leading to the successful use of open data among companies and governments
Data interoperability
A tool for organizing data elements and how they relate to one another
Data model
Preserving a data subject’s information any time a data transaction occurs
Data privacy
Protecting data from unauthorized access or corruption by adopting safety measures
Data security
An attribute that describes a piece of data based on its values, its programming language, or the operations it can perform
Data type
Metadata that describes a piece of data and can be used to identify it at a later point in time
Descriptive metadata
An electronic or computer-based image usually in BMP or JPG format
Digital photo
Data that is counted and has a limited number of values
Discrete data
Well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues
Ethics
The tendency for different people to observe things differently (Refer to Observer bias)
Experimenter bias
Data that lives and is generated outside of an organization
External data
A single piece of information from a row or column of a spreadsheet; in a data table, typically a column in the table
Field