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.
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What is the Twofish encryption algorithm?
Twofish is a symmetric-key block cipher with a block size of 128 bits and variable-length key of size 128, 192 or 256 bits.
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What is domain generation algorithm (DGA)?
A domain generation algorithm (DGA) is a program that generates a large list of domain names. DGAs provide malware with new domains to evade security countermeasures.
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What are diffusion models?
Diffusion models are a category of generative AI that excels at creating images, audio, video and other types of data by using a two-step process: forward diffusion and reverse diffusion.
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.
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What is lemmatization?
Lemmatization is the process of grouping together different inflected forms of the same word.
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What is Perplexity AI?
Perplexity AI is an artificial intelligence-powered web search tool that can generate answers to user queries and complete other content-generation tasks.
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What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that uses natural language processing to create humanlike conversational dialogue.
Data and data management
Terms related to data, including definitions about data warehousing and words and phrases about data management.
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What is data cleansing (data cleaning, data scrubbing)?
Data cleansing, also referred to as data cleaning or data scrubbing, is the process of fixing incorrect, incomplete, duplicate or otherwise erroneous data in a data set.
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What is demand planning and why is it important?
Demand planning is the process of forecasting the demand for a product or service so it can be produced and delivered more efficiently and to the satisfaction of customers.
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What is a private cloud? Definition and examples
Private cloud is a type of cloud computing that delivers advantages similar to public cloud, including scalability and self-service, but through a proprietary architecture.
Database management
Terms related to databases, including definitions about relational databases and words and phrases about database management.
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What is data cleansing (data cleaning, data scrubbing)?
Data cleansing, also referred to as data cleaning or data scrubbing, is the process of fixing incorrect, incomplete, duplicate or otherwise erroneous data in a data set.
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What is SAP S/4HANA?
SAP S/4HANA is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) business suite based on the SAP HANA in-memory database that allows companies to perform transactions and analyze business data in real time.
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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.