Data analytics and AI

This glossary contains definitions related to customer data analytics, predictive analytics, data visualization and operational business intelligence. Some definitions explain the meaning of words used to Hadoop and other software tools used in big data analytics. Other definitions are related to the strategies that business intelligence professionals, data scientists, statisticians and data analysts use to make data-driven decisions.

Algorithms

Terms related to procedures or formulas for solving a problem by conducting a sequence of specified actions. In computing, algorithms in the form of mathematical instructions play an important part in search, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.

  • What is traveling salesman problem (TSP)?

    The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is a programming optimization problem to find the shortest path that connects a given set of points.

  • What is the 11th dimension in M-theory?

    The 11th dimension is a characteristic of spacetime that has been proposed as a possible answer to questions that arise in superstring theory.

  • What is explainable AI?

    Explainable AI (XAI) is artificial intelligence (AI) programmed to describe its purpose, rationale and decision-making process in a way that the average person can understand.

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Artificial intelligence

Terms related to artificial intelligence (AI), including definitions about machine learning and words and phrases about training data, algorithms, natural language processing, neural networks and automation.

  • What is AgentGPT?

    AgentGPT is a generative artificial intelligence tool that enables users to create autonomous AI agents that can be delegated a range of tasks.

  • What is Google Gemini (formerly Bard)

    Google Gemini -- formerly called Bard -- is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot tool designed by Google to simulate human conversations using natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning.

  • What is ChatGPT?

    ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that uses natural language processing to create humanlike conversational dialogue.

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Data and data management

Terms related to data, including definitions about data warehousing and words and phrases about data management.

  • What is data transformation? Definition, types and benefits

    Data transformation is the process of converting data from one format -- such as a database file, Extensible Markup Language document or Excel spreadsheet -- into another.

  • What is a semantic network?

    A semantic network is a knowledge structure that depicts how concepts are related to one another and how they interconnect.

  • What is explainable AI?

    Explainable AI (XAI) is artificial intelligence (AI) programmed to describe its purpose, rationale and decision-making process in a way that the average person can understand.

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Database management

Terms related to databases, including definitions about relational databases and words and phrases about database management.

  • What is a framework?

    In general, a framework is a real or conceptual structure intended to serve as a support or guide for the building of something that expands the structure into something useful.

  • What is a knowledge graph in ML (machine learning)?

    In the realm of machine learning (ML), a knowledge graph is a graphical representation that captures the connections between different entities.

  • What is data?

    In computing, data is information translated into a form that is efficient for movement or processing.

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